planelkp.blogg.se - Code of va 16.1

Supreme Court: means the Supreme Court of Virginia.

Statute: A law passed by a legislature.

(2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case.

Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case.

Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.

The only exceptions are those records that fall into one of nine exempted categories listed in the statute.

Freedom of Information Act: A federal law that mandates that all the records created and kept by federal agencies in the executive branch of government must be open for public inspection and copying.

Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.

To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant. Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly.Such appeal shall be to a court of record having jurisdiction within the territory of the court from which the appeal is taken and shall be heard de novo. From any order entered or judgment rendered in a court not of record in a civil case in which the matter in controversy is of greater value than $20, exclusive of interest, any attorney fees contracted for in the instrument, and costs, or when the case involves the constitutionality or validity of a statute of the Commonwealth, or of an ordinance or bylaw of a municipal corporation, or of the enforcement of rights and privileges conferred by the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (§ 2.2-3700 et seq.), or of a protective order pursuant to § 19.2-152.10, or of an action filed by a condominium unit owners’ association or unit owner pursuant to § 55.1-1959, or of an action filed by a property owners’ association or lot owner pursuant to § 55.1-1819, or from any order entered or judgment rendered in a general district court that alters, amends, overturns, or vacates any prior final order, there shall be an appeal of right, if taken within 10 days after such order or judgment, to a court of record.