19.2-119 - Definitions.
§ 19.2-119. Definitions.
As used in this chapter:
"Bail" means the pretrial release of a person from custody upon those termsand conditions specified by order of an appropriate judicial officer.
"Bond" means the posting by a person or his surety of a written promise topay a specific sum, secured or unsecured, ordered by an appropriate judicialofficer as a condition of bail to assure performance of the terms andconditions contained in the recognizance.
"Criminal history" means records and data collected by criminal justiceagencies or persons consisting of identifiable descriptions and notations ofarrests, detentions, indictments, informations or other formal charges, andany deposition arising therefrom.
"Judicial officer" means, unless otherwise indicated, any magistrateserving the jurisdiction, any judge of a district court and the clerk ordeputy clerk of any district court or circuit court within their respectivecities and counties, any judge of a circuit court, any judge of the Court ofAppeals and any justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia.
"Person" means any accused, or any juvenile taken into custody pursuant to§ 16.1-246.
"Recognizance" means a signed commitment by a person to appear in court asdirected and to adhere to any other terms ordered by an appropriate judicialofficer as a condition of bail.
(Code 1950, § 19.1-109.1; 1973, c. 485; 1974, c. 114; 1975, c. 495; 1984, c.703; 1991, c. 581; 1993, c. 636; 1999, cc. 829, 846; 2008, cc. 551, 691.)