§57-1-5. Notice by Courts and Officers of Signatures of Judges or Governor
All courts and officers shall take notice of the signature of any of the judges, or of the Governor, of this state, to any judicial or official documents.
§57-1-6. Copies of Certain Deeds
Copies of deeds, acknowledged or proved and certified according to the act of the general assembly of Virginia, of the thirteenth of December, seventeen hundred and ninety-two, and placed upon record after the expiration of two years, the period prescribed by the act of the twenty-fifth of December, seventeen hundred and ninety-four, but before the […]
§57-1-7. Copies of Records, Bonds or Papers in Public Offices; Certificate of Auditor
A copy of any record, bond or paper in the office of the clerk of either house of the Legislature or of any court, or in the office of the Secretary of State, treasurer or Auditor, or in the office of the surveyor of lands of any county, or in the office of any other […]
§57-1-7a. Use of Photographic Copies in Evidence; State Records, Papers or Documents; Destruction or Transfer to Archives of Originals; Destruction of Canceled Checks and Paid and Canceled Bonds and Coupons
(a) Any public officer of the state may, with the approval of the state records administrator, cause any or all records, papers or documents kept by him to be reproduced, by any photographic, photostatic, microphotographic or by similar miniature photographic process or by nonerasable optical image disks (commonly referred to as compact disks) or by […]
§57-1-1. Copies of Legislative Journals, Acts and Resolutions
Copies of the journal of either house of the Legislature, and copies of the acts and resolutions of the Legislature, which have been or shall hereafter be published by authority thereof, shall be received as evidence for any purpose for which the original journal, acts or resolutions could be received and with as much effect.
§57-1-2. Local or Private Acts and Resolutions of Legislature; Judicial Notice Thereof
Local or private acts and resolutions of the Legislature may be given in evidence without being especially pleaded; and an appellate court shall take judicial notice of such as appear to have been relied on in the court below.
§57-1-3. Copies of Virginia Laws
The printed copies of the acts and resolutions of the general assembly of Virginia and of the statutes and codes of that state, with the supplements to and continuations of the same, and the ordinances of the convention which assembled at Wheeling on June 11, eighteen hundred and sixty- one, shall continue to be received […]
§57-1-4. Judicial Notice of Foreign Laws
Whenever in any case it becomes material to ascertain what the law, statutory or other, of another state or country, or of the United States, is, or was at any time, the court, judge, or magistrate shall take judicial notice thereof, and may consult any printed book or other document, purporting to contain, state or […]