Download or read book Virginia Colonial Decisions written by Virginia. General Court and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Virginia Colonial Decisions written by Virginia. General Court and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Virginia Colonial Decisions Vol 1 written by John Randolph and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Virginia Colonial Decisions, Vol. 1: The Reports of Decisions of the General Court of Virginia, 1728-1741 These decisions now printed for the first time are not ofiered for their mere usefulness. To a large extent they will serve that purpose, as the fountains feed the streams; but the reason that they should be published and put in the hands of the general reader, and of students and practitioners of the law, is chiefly that they are the mirror of the events of by far the most interesting period of our American life. These are therefore not merely decided cases to be used as dull precedents with which to win causes. That is their minor function. Their chief use here is the picture they give of the colonial period in all its shades and aspects, and that they make the observer see what the more detailed narrative of history fails to tell, of those brooding times of the States. Moreover, the publisher has not been content to reproduce simply a statement of the cases, the argu ments of counsel, and the decisions of the courts, recorded in these manuscripts near one hundred and eighty years ago. Printed by themselves they do not seem to appeal sufficiently to the imagination to be pre sented fully in the light in which they should be viewed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Virginia Colonial Decisions written by Virginia. General Court and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Virginia Colonial Decisions written by Virginia General Court and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Virginia Colonial Decisions Volume II written by Virginia General Court and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The History of the Colonial Virginia Book 1 3 written by Thomas J. Wertenbaker and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the Colonial Virginia is a three volume series dealing with the pre revolutionary Virginia. This series provides one of the best historical reviews of British rule in the New World and the life of colonial aristocracy. Contents Patrician and Plebeian The Aristocracy The Middle Class Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688 The Founding of Virginia The Establishment of Representative Government The Expulsion of Sir John Harvey Governor Berkeley and the Commonwealth The Causes of Bacon's Rebellion Bacon's Rebellion The Period of Confusion The Critical Period The Planters of Colonial Virginia England in the New World The Indian Weed The Virginia Yeomanry Freemen and Freedmen The Restoration Period The Yeoman in Virginia History World Trade Beneath the Black Tide
Download or read book History of Virginia Vol 1 of 6 written by Philip Alexander Bruce and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-22 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of Virginia, Vol. 1 of 6: Colonial Period, 1607-1763 The first century and a half of Virginia's Colonial History, the period described in this volume, was crowded with events of extraor dinary variety and far - descending influence. The eighteen years of the London Company's existence saw the erection on the banks of the James of the first permanent English settlement in the Western Hemisphere; the meeting at Jamestown of the earliest representative assembly to convene within the present area of the United States; the establishment of the first civil and criminal courts; the first trial by jury; the first grant of separate titles to land; the planting of the first staple crops; the manufacture of the first merchantable articles; the building of the first church; and the construction of the first dwelling-house. The era of Nathaniel Bacon made up another interval of supreme importance, for it was then that the first armed blow on a large scale was struck on American soil for the preservation of the rights of the common people and for their equality before the law. Subsequently, it was during the administrations of Culpeper and Effingham that the Virginians contended, with indomitable courage and persistence, for the inherited, and inalienable, and sole right of their General Assemblies to impose taxes and originate the measures necessary for the proper government of their local affairs. And next, it was during the administrations of Spotswood and Gooch that the first great movement of population westward began, never to pause until the shores of the Pacific were reached; and it was during this interval, also, that the' Dissenters carried on their noble struggle for religious liberty, which was to end, at a later day, in a splendid triumph. And, finally, it was during the administrations of Din widdie and Fauquier that the expansion of the French Power towards the Alleghanies was permanently halted. All these dramatic and pregnant episodes were, by their transmitted influence, to make a profound impression on the character and career of the great Republic which now dominates the Western Hemisphere, and they are, there fore, entitled to a discriminating study as much from a national, as from a Virginian, point of view. I have not lost sight of' this larger significance in my treatment of the different aspects of my central theme, whether it deals with the facts in the ordinary current of events, or with the qualities of the men who played the chief part during the years of the colonial period. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Records of the Virginia Company of London written by Virginia Company of London and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Executive Journals of the Council of Colonial Virginia Vol 1 written by H. R. McIlwaine and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-06 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Executive Journals of the Council of Colonial Virginia, Vol. 1: June 11, 1680-June 22, 1699 That full copies were not sent over to England is inferred from the fact that the two orders given in the Appendix (see pp. 536 and dated 1680 and 1683, respectively, are not found among the proceed ings for those years transmitted in regular course, but in a paper con taining copy of the proceedings of the Council from September 25, 1680, to April 22, 1707, in reference to the boundaries of Virginia and North Carolina, sent over in 1708. With copies of these two orders were then sent copies of orders on the same subject dated 1688, 1690, and 1691, already transmitted. Evidently the Council did not at first think the omitted orders of sufficient importance to copy for trans mission, but changed their minds when the question of the boundary between Virginia and North Carolina became a burning one. Either that, or Mr. Secretary Jennings, who by order was also required to send important information to England, thought it best in 1708 to transmit copies of all orders of the Virginia Council in reference to the Virginia - North Carolina boundary. The inference that there were omissions in the copies of proceed ings sent to England is also drawn from the fact that the Randolph Manuscript has abstracts of items not in the transcripts now being received from England, which must have been obtained by the com piler of the original Bland Manuscript from the original journals and not from the other record books of the Council in existence at the time the compilation was made. This hypothesis accounts also for the lack of strict chronological order of the entries, which is a notice able peculiarity of the text. The procedure probably was that the clerk of the Council copied the items he thought important and then, if on re-perusal of the journals he was convinced that something of value had escaped his attention made good the omission without re-copying the whole. After this, no doubt, on his reading to the Council for their approval what he had copied, the members and the Governor would call attention to still other items that might be considered of sufficient importance to copy for transmission. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Justice in Colonial Virginia Volume 23 written by Oliver Perry Chitwood and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. The Inferior Courts. The Monthly or County Courts.--The most important inferior court was the one regularly held in each county. It was at first known as the monthly court, but it was afterwards given the English name of county court. The first monthly courts were established as early as 1624. At that time it was provided by an act of assembly that courts should be held every month in the corporations of Charles City and Elizabeth City.1 The creation of these courts was the necessary outcome of the rapid growth of the colony which began in 1619. When the cleared areas began to lengthen along the river and to encroach more and more on the wilderness, it became very inconvenient for those colonists living at a distance from James City to go there for the arbitration of their minor differences. The need of local adjudication in small matters naturally became felt first in the more remote settlements, and, as one would expect, the first two monthly courts were established on the eastern and western frontiers. The jurisdiction of the county courts was limited to petty cases coming up from the precincts immediately adjacent to them, and thus the judicial authority of the governor and council was, for a considerable part of the country, left unimpaired. 1 In an address made before the Virginia Bar Association in 1894, Judge Waller Staples said that monthly courts were first established in 1623. This statement is based on a law passed by the assembly in 1624; the mistake in the date arises, I presume, from an erroneous reading of "1623-4," which is given by Hening as the date of the act. It is not improbable that these two courts were established as early as the year 1619, and that the act of 1624 was only a statutory recognition of...
Download or read book Virginia Law Books written by William Hamilton Bryson and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 2000 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: State codes; Municipal & County Codes; Rules of Court; Reports of Cases; Official Court Records in Print; Accounts of Trials; Indexes, Digests, & Encyclopedias; Form Books; Law Treatises Printed Before 1950; Criminal Law Books; 19th-Century Law Journals; 20th-Century Legal Periodicals; Legal Education; Academic Law Libraries; William & Mary Law Library; Public Law Librarians; The Norfolk Law Library; Private Law Libraries Before 1776; Private Law Libraries After 1776; Public Printers; J.W. Randolph; The Michie Company; General Virginia Bibliography; Index of Authors & Editors; & Subject Index.
Download or read book The Statutes at Large written by Virginia and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Church of England in Colonial Virginia Vol 1 written by Edgar Legare Pennington and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-16 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Church of England in Colonial Virginia, Vol. 1: 1607 1619 On the 26th of April, 1607, the settlers arrived at a cape, which they named Cape Henry in honour of the Prince of Wales, the eldest son of King James the First. A cross was planted there. Then the expedition sailed into Chesapeake Bay and up the James River. On the 13th of May, the site for Jamestown was chosen; and the ships were made fast to the trees. The next day, the travellers unloaded. Both gentlemen and labourers felled trees to make a clearing for the fort. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Common Law in Colonial America written by William Edward Nelson and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William E. Nelson's first volume of the four-volume The Common Law of Colonial America (2008) established a new benchmark for study of colonial era legal history. Drawing from both a rich archival base and existing scholarship on the topic, the first volume demonstrated how the legal systems of Britain's thirteen North American colonies-each of which had unique economies, political structures, and religious institutions -slowly converged into a common law order that differed substantially from English common law. The first volume focused on how the legal systems of the Chesapeake colonies--Virginia and Maryland--contrasted with those of the New England colonies and traced these dissimilarities from the initial settlement of America until approximately 1660. In this new volume, Nelson brings the discussion forward, covering the years from 1660, which saw the Restoration of the British monarchy, to 1730. In particular, he analyzes the impact that an increasingly powerful British government had on the evolution of the common law in the New World. As the reach of the Crown extended, Britain imposed far more restrictions than before on the new colonies it had chartered in the Carolinas and the middle Atlantic region. The government's intent was to ensure that colonies' laws would align more tightly with British law. Nelson examines how the newfound coherence in British colonial policy led these new colonies to develop common law systems that corresponded more closely with one another, eliminating much of the variation that socio-economic differences had created in the earliest colonies. As this volume reveals, these trends in governance ultimately resulted in a tension between top-down pressures from Britain for a more uniform system of laws and bottom-up pressures from colonists to develop their own common law norms and preserve their own distinctive societies. Authoritative and deeply researched, the volumes in The Common Law of Colonial America will become the foundational resource for anyone interested the history of American law before the Revolution.
Download or read book The Virginia Colony written by Kevin Cunningham and published by Scholastic. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A True Book-The Thirteen Colonies Are you thrilled by true adventure stories? do you wonder how our founding fathers conquered the wilds of North America to create the United States? You'll experience it all in these books that tell the story of the brave men and women who escaped tyranny from across the ocean to forge a new world in 13 colonies that led to the birth of the United States of America.
Download or read book List of the Colonial Soldiers of Virginia written by Virginia State Library. Archives Division and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1917 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a basic list of the colonial soldiers of Virginia known to have been engaged in active service, including names of those who participated in the French and Indian War, the Indian Wars, Lord Dunmore's War, and various engagements and campaigns prior to the Revolution. The list was drawn from company rolls, bounty applications, the Washington Papers in the Library of Congress, Hening's Statutes at Large, and Journals of the House of Burgesses, and it is believed to represent a large proportion of the entire Virginia militia, particularly after the year 1754, when muster rolls were more carefully kept. It is believed that few members of the Virginia regiment under George Washington are unaccounted for. In all some 6,700 soldiers are identified in this work, each with references to the exact source of information.
