Except as provided in § 2.2-3713, application for a writ of mandamus or a writ of prohibition shall be on petition verified by oath, after the party against whom the writ is prayed has been served with a copy of the petition and notice of the intended application a reasonable time before such application is made.
Va. Code Ann. § 8.01-644
Application for mandamus or prohibition
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case 16 Va. App. 241 - In Re Baskins (1993)
Most recently applied in Harris v. Director, Virginia Department of Corrections (June 2008)
Code 1950, § 8-704; 1977, c. 617; 2009, c. 634.
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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.
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