§ 8.01-620.General jurisdiction of circuit court to award injunctions.

This section hands circuit courts a broad, standing grant of power: they can award injunctions without a separate statute authorizing each individual use. It anchors the rest of Chapter 24 — later sections narrow down when courts should act, what proof they need, and what security they can demand — but this one establishes that the underlying power exists.

The section singles out Uniform Statewide Building Code violations as one confirmed use, giving localities and neighbors a court-ready remedy when unsafe construction threatens health and safety and routine code enforcement cannot keep pace.

It also reaches past ordinary territorial limits: a circuit court can act whether the judgment or proceeding being enjoined happens inside or outside its own circuit, and whether the person being enjoined lives there or somewhere else. That flexibility matters because the conduct an injunction needs to stop often starts in one place and causes harm somewhere else entirely.