                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

IMMUNITY FROM SERVICE OF PROCESS IN CERTAIN CIVIL ACTIONS (§ 19.2-113)

A person brought into this Commonwealth by, or after waiver of, extradition
based on a criminal charge shall not be subject to service of personal process
in civil actions arising out of the same facts as the criminal proceeding to
answer which he is being or has been returned, until he has been convicted in
the criminal proceeding, or, if acquitted, until he has had reasonable
opportunity to return to the state from which he was extradited.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 19.1-77; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495.