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Virginia Criminal Law Concepts
579 legal terms defined by Virginia statute, each with its verbatim statutory definition.
A
- Abuse
- Abused or neglected child
- Acquirer
- Act of sexual violence
- Act of terrorism
- Act of violence
- Actual buyer
- Add-ons
- Administer
- Administrative proceeding
- Adoptive home
- Adult
- Advertisement
- Agent
- Aggravated circumstances
- Aggrieved person
- All-terrain vehicle
- Ammunition for a firearm
- Amusement device
- Anabolic steroid
- Ancillary matter
- Animal
- Anonymous physical evidence recovery kit
- Anonymous trace evidence collection kit
- Antique firearm
- Antique motor vehicle
- Antique trailer
- Appropriate reward
- Assault firearm
- Attending physician
- Aural transfer
- Authorization
- Authorized payment card user
- Authorized person
- Authorized pharmacy disposal site
- Auto sear
- Autocycle
- Automated drug dispensing system
- Automobile transporter
B
C
- Caller identification information
- Camping trailer
- Cannabimimetic agents
- Capitol Square
- Capitol Square and the surrounding area
- Cardholder
- Care
- Carnal knowledge
- Certified evaluator
- Charitable gaming supplies
- Chauffeur
- Chief law-enforcement officer
- Chief police officer
- Child day center
- Child in need of services
- Child in need of supervision
- Child welfare agency
- Child-minding service
- Cigarette
- Circular intersection
- Civil disorder
- Claimant
- Clandestine organization
- Class one
- Class three
- Class two
- Closed-loop gift card
- Co-licensed partner
- Commercial electronic mail
- Commission
- Commissioner
- Communications common carrier
- Community services board
- Compensation
- Complaining witness
- Compounding
- Computer
- Computer data
- Computer network
- Computer operation
- Computer program
- Computer services
- Computer software
- Conduct
- Confidential informant
- Consent
- Consideration
- Consumer
- Contracted defense facility
- Controlled substance
- Controlled substance analog
- Controlled technical information
- Converted electric vehicle
- Copy
- Credit card
- Crime
- Criminal history
- Criminal history record
- Criminal street gang
- Crosswalk
- Curios or relics
- Custodial interrogation
D
- Day-care service
- DEA
- Deadly force
- Deadly weapon
- Dealer
- Decal
- Defendant
- Deferred payment agreement
- Delete
- Delinquent act
- Delinquent child
- Delivery sale
- Delivery service
- Designation
- Designee of the local community services board
- Determination of debilitation
- Determination of incompetence
- Developmental disability
- Developmental services
- Device
- Dextromethorphan
- Dialysis solution
- Direct interest
- Director
- Disability
- Disabled parking license plate
- Disabled veteran
- Dispense
- Dispenser
- Distribute
- Distributor
- Division
- Driver's license
- Drug
- Drug paraphernalia
- Drug product
E
- Electric personal assistive mobility device
- Electric power-assisted bicycle
- Electronic communication
- Electronic communication device
- Electronic communication service
- Electronic communication service provider
- Electronic communication system
- Electronic device
- Electronic gaming adjusted gross receipts
- Electronic gaming manufacturer
- Electronic prescription
- Electronic report
- Electronic smoking device
- Electronic storage
- Electronic tracking device
- Electronically transmitted communication
- Emergency call
- Emergency communication
- Emergency medical services provider
- Emergency personnel
- Emergency response
- Emergency vehicle
- Employed by
- Employee
- Employment
- Encapsulating machine
- Encrypted
- Encryption
- Enrollment
- Enterprise
- Entity
- Ephedrine or related compounds
- Essential parts
- Excessive force
- Executive finance committee
- Exhibition driving
- Expired credit card
- Explosive material
- Explosive or incendiary device
- Extended visit
F
- Facial covering
- Fair market rental value
- False caller identification information
- Family abuse
- Family or household member
- Farm tractor
- Farm utility vehicle
- FDA
- Federal firearms licensee
- Federal licensee authorized to serialize firearms
- Federal safety requirements
- Fictive kin
- Financial exploitation
- Financial instrument
- Financial responsibility
- Financial responsibility in the future
- Financial transaction
- Fines and costs
- Fire bomb
- Firearm
- Firefighter
- Fiscal agent locality
- Fleet vehicle
- Foreign corporation
- Foreign market vehicle
- Foreign vehicle
- Foster care services
G
H
I
- Identification document
- Ignition interlock system
- Illegal gambling
- Immediate family or household member
- Immediate precursor
- Incapable of making an informed decision
- Independent living arrangement
- Independent living services
- Individual
- Inpatient treatment
- Installment payment agreement
- Instigating
- Institution of higher education
- Intake officer
- Intellectual disability
- Intercept
- Interchangeable
- Interested party
- Interfere with
- Intersection
- Interstate gambling
- Intimate partner
- Intimate parts
- Intimidate
- Intractable behavior
- Investigative or law-enforcement officer
- Investment interest
- Issuer
J
K
L
- Label
- Labeling
- Labor trafficking
- Landlord
- Lane-use control signal
- Large capacity ammunition feeding device
- Law-enforcement agency
- Law-enforcement officer
- Lawfully admitted for permanent residence
- Least restrictive alternative
- Legal custody
- License
- License plate
- License to manufacture firearms
- Light
- Liquefied petroleum gas
- Location-restricted knife
- Low-speed vehicle
M
- Mail receptacle
- Major component
- Management
- Manufacture
- Manufacture of an unlawful electronic communication device
- Manufacture or assemble
- Manufactured home
- Manufacturer
- Marijuana
- Medical emergency
- Medical equipment supplier
- Mental health facility
- Mental health services
- Mental illness
- Mental incapacity
- Merchant
- Military surplus motor vehicle
- Minor
- Modified deferred payment agreement
- Monetary instruments
- Moped
- Motor home
- Motor vehicle
- Motor-driven cycle
- Motorcycle
- Motorized skateboard or scooter
- Murder
N
- Narcotic drug
- Neck restraint
- Neglect
- Network
- Network bingo
- Network bingo provider
- New drug
- New prescription drug
- News organization
- Newsperson
- Nonprofit data services organization
- Nonresident
- Nonresident student
- Nonviolent felony
- Notice
- Notice of intent to perform the abortion
- Novelty lighter
- Noxious chemical substances
- Nuclear medicine technologist
- Nudity
O
- Obscene
- Obscene item
- Off-road motorcycle
- Offense for which registration is required
- Offense prohibiting proximity to children
- Official compendium
- Official documentation
- Official written order
- Open container
- Open-loop gift card
- Operation
- Operator
- Opiate
- Opium poppy
- Oral communication
- Ordinance
- Organization
- Original package
- Outsourcing facility
- Over any telephone
- Overdose
- Owner
P
- Parent
- Pari-mutuel play
- Party official
- Passenger area
- Passenger car
- Payment card
- Payment device
- Payment device number
- Pecuniary benefit
- Pen register
- Perform an abortion
- Permanent foster care placement
- Personal delivery device
- Personal delivery device operator
- Personal information
- Personal knowledge
- Pharmacist-in-charge
- Pharmacy
- Pharmacy benefits manager
- Pharmacy drug disposal program
- Physical evidence recovery kit
- Physical helplessness
- Physical obstruction
- Physical presence
- Pickup or panel truck
- Place of business
- Place of detention
- Plastic firearm
- Police officer
- Policy board
- Poppy straw
- Postal service
- Power of attorney
- Practitioner
- Predicate criminal act
- Prescriber
- Prescription
- Prescription drug
- Principal
- Private road or driveway
- Proceeds
- Promotes
- Properly served
- Property
- Proprietary medicine
- Protected information
- Protective order
- Provider
- Public official
- Public servant
- Public service project
- Public transportation service
- Pyramid promotional scheme
Q
R
- Racketeering activity
- Radiopharmaceutical
- Raffle
- Re-encoder
- Readily accessible to the general public
- Real-time location data
- Reasonable and proper business expenses
- Rebuy
- Recognizance
- Reconstructed vehicle
- Record
- Redact
- Reference biological product
- Remote alcohol monitoring device
- Remote computing service
- Remote dispensing system
- Replica vehicle
- Reproductive health services
- Residence district
- Residual parental rights and responsibilities
- Responsible person
- Retail distributor
- Retail mercantile establishment
- Retail property
- Retail property fence
- Retail tobacco product
- Retailer
- Retired or former law-enforcement officer
- Revoked credit card
- Roadway
- Rolling retest
S
- Sadomasochistic abuse
- Safety zone
- Sale
- Sales draft
- Sawed-off rifle
- Sawed-off shotgun
- Scanning device
- School
- School bus
- School security officer
- Sealed possession of marijuana record
- Sealed record
- Sealing
- Sell
- Seller
- Semitrailer
- Serious bodily injury
- Serious bodily injury or disease
- Service member
- Sex trafficking
- Sexual abuse
- Sexual assault forensic examiner
- Sexual assault offense
- Sexual conduct
- Sexual contact
- Sexual excitement
- Shared-use path
- Shelter care
- Shipping container
- Shipping documents
- Shoulder
- Sidewalk
- Skill
- Skill game
- Snowmobile
- Social organization
- Social quarters
- Spam
- Special construction and forestry equipment
- Specially constructed vehicle
- Sports official
- Spring stick
- Standby guardian
- State Board
- Status offender
- Status offense
- Stinger-steered automobile or watercraft transporter
- Stirring up litigation
- Student
- Stun weapon
- Subscriber data
- Superintendent
- Supplemental or emergency funding
- Supplier
T
- Tableting machine
- Tattoo
- Telecommunications carrier
- Telehealth sexual assault forensic examination
- Telephone record
- Terminal condition
- Tetrahydrocannabinol
- Texas Hold'em poker game
- The judge
- Therapeutically equivalent drug products
- Third-party logistics provider
- Tier I offense
- Tier II offense
- Tier III offense
- Total tetrahydrocannabinol
- Tow truck
- Towing and recovery operator
- Toy vehicle
- Trace evidence collection kit
- Tracking device
- Tractor truck
- Traffic control device
- Traffic history record
- Traffic infraction
- Trailer
- Transfer
- Trap and trace device
- Treating physician
- Treatment
- Trigger activator
- Triggering event
- Truck
- Truck lessor