The common law of England, insofar as it is not repugnant to the principles of the Bill of Rights and Constitution of this Commonwealth, shall continue in full force within the same, and be the rule of decision, except as altered by the General Assembly.
Va. Code Ann. § 1-200
The common law
Applied in 13 court decisions — leading case United States v. Rodriguez (2013)
Most recently applied in United States v. Terry White (January 2022)
Code 1919, § 2, § 1-10; 2005, c. 839.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Virginia Law Portal (LIS). Reproduced from public-domain Virginia statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.