Any person, being married, who voluntarily shall have sexual intercourse with any person not his or her spouse shall be guilty of adultery, punishable as a Class 4 misdemeanor.
Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-365
Adultery defined; penalty
Applied in 18 court decisions — leading case City of Sherman v. Henry (1996)
Most recently applied in Ingleson v. Burlington Medical Supplies, Inc. (October 2015)
Code 1950, §§18.1-187, 18.1-190; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15.
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Official source: Virginia Law Portal (LIS). Reproduced from public-domain Virginia statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.