Terms Used In Virginia Code > Title 30 > Chapter 29 - Commissioners for Promotion of Uniformity of Legislation

• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• County: means any existing county or such unit hereafter created. See Virginia Code 15.2-102
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Locality: means a county, city, or town as the context may require. See Virginia Code 1-221
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Town: means any existing town or an incorporated community within one or more counties which became a town before noon, July one, nineteen hundred seventy-one, as provided by law or which has within defined boundaries a population of 1,000 or more and which has become a town as provided by law. See Virginia Code 15.2-102
• United States: includes the 50 states, the District of Columbia the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the United States Virgin Islands. See Virginia Code 1-255