§ 8.01-668.Writ de homine abolished.

Section 8.01-668 delivers a one-line ruling: the writ de homine replegiando is abolished. The Code does not spell out what that writ once accomplished, so the practical takeaway for a modern reader is that it no longer exists as a tool in Virginia courts.

Positioned at the close of the habeas corpus article, the section confirms that habeas corpus ad subjiciendum — the writ Section 8.01-654 defines and the rest of this article governs — remains the operative mechanism in Virginia for challenging unlawful detention, without a surviving alternative writ competing alongside it.