39 Va. App. 448 - Hughes v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 20 Va. App. 133 - Sandoval v. Commonwealth · Yarborough v. Commonwealth · Peyton v. French · 26 Va. App. 154 - Juares v. Commonwealth · Halifax Corp. v. First Union National Bank
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“Under basic rules of statutory construction, we examine a statute in its entirety, rather than by isolating particular words or phrases. When the language in a statute is clear and unambiguous, we are bound by the plain meaning of that language. We must determine the General Assembly’s intent from the words appearing in the statute, unless a literal construction of the statute would yield an absurd result.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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