2006 Code of Virginia § 18.2-16 - How common-law offenses punished

18.2-16. How common-law offenses punished.

A common-law offense, for which punishment is prescribed by statute, shall bepunished only in the mode so prescribed.

(Code 1950, 18.1-8; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15.)

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