                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

JUDICIAL NOTICE OF LAWS (SUPREME COURT RULE 2:202 DERIVED IN PART FROM THIS
SECTION) (§ 8.01-386)

A. Whenever, in any civil action it becomes necessary to ascertain what the law,
statutory or otherwise, of this Commonwealth, of another state, of the United
States, of another country, or of any political subdivision or agency of the
same is, or was, at any time, the court shall take judicial notice thereof
whether specially pleaded or not.

B. The court, in taking such notice, may consult any book, record, register,
journal, or other official document or publication purporting to contain, state,
or explain such law, and may consider any evidence or other information or
argument that is offered on the subject.

HISTORY: Code 1950, §§ 8-264, 8-270, 8-273; 1960, c. 504; 1977, c. 617.