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Code · Virginia · Title 18.2 · Chapter 1

Code of Virginia § 18.2-16. How common-law offenses punished.

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A common-law offense, for which punishment is prescribed by statute, shall be punished only in the mode so prescribed.
Code 1950, § 18.1-8; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15.
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