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§ 8.01-411. Compelling attendance of witnesses for taking depositions and production of documents to be used in foreign jurisdiction.

Whenever any mandate, writ or commission is issued out of any court of record in any other state, territory, district or foreign jurisdiction, or whenever upon notice or agreement it is required to take the testimony of a witness or witnesses or produce or inspect designated documents in this Commonwealth, witnesses may be compelled to appear and testify and to produce and permit inspection or copying of documents in the same manner and by the same process and proceeding as may be employed for the purpose of taking testimony or producing documents in proceedings pending in this Commonwealth.

(Code 1950, § 8-316.1; 1958, c. 58; 1977, c. 617; 1986, c. 599.)