The Highway Code be taken into account by a court. The mandatory rules reflect the Statute Law, which may (and usually does) provide a separate penalty. The highway code was first published in 1931 as a booklet and has been regularly updated to reflect current practices. It is prepared by the Department for Transport and the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency, and is published by The Stationery Office in electronic form and as a printed book. Most copies are bought by learner drivers preparing for their driving test. In 2004, for example, over one million copies of the Highway Code were sold. The
Code of Virginia as soon as 1923, the director of the State Legislative Reference Bureau published "General Laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia" to incorporate amendments and assign section numbers to new statutes. In 1924, the Michie Company published "The Code of Virginia as Amended to Adjournment of General Assembly 1924," which was prepared by company founder and Supreme Court of Appeals reporter Thomas Johnson Michie. The "Michie Code", as it became known, was supplemented after each session of the General Assembly, and a new edition was published in 1930, 1936, and 1942, by which time the one-volume code had grown to more