Digest of the Laws of Virginia: Which are of a Permanent Character and General Operation; Illustrated by Judicial Decisions: to which is Added, an Index of the Names of the Cases in the Virginia Reporters, Volume 1 |
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... any person or persons to commit any of the said offences , being thereof
convicted or attainted , and either of the said offences shall actually have been
committed , shall be adjudged guilty of felony , and shall undergo a confinement
in the ...
... any person or persons to commit any of the said offences , being thereof
convicted or attainted , and either of the said offences shall actually have been
committed , shall be adjudged guilty of felony , and shall undergo a confinement
in the ...
Page 264
... in any of the superior courts thereof , having criminal jurisdiction , of a felony
committed by any person , and the person ... to issue his warrant directed to any
sheriff or constable for apprehending the person so charged , and commit him ,
her ...
... in any of the superior courts thereof , having criminal jurisdiction , of a felony
committed by any person , and the person ... to issue his warrant directed to any
sheriff or constable for apprehending the person so charged , and commit him ,
her ...
Page 448
162 . monwealth , any person who shall have fled hither from any such state or
territory , and shall moreover produce the copy of an indictment , or an affidavit ,
charging the person so demanded with having committed treason , felony or
other ...
162 . monwealth , any person who shall have fled hither from any such state or
territory , and shall moreover produce the copy of an indictment , or an affidavit ,
charging the person so demanded with having committed treason , felony or
other ...
Page 449
If any person shall be charged before any justice of the peace in this
commonwealth with any treason , felony , or other crime committed in any other of
the United States , or in any district or territory thereof , and such charge shall be
verified by ...
If any person shall be charged before any justice of the peace in this
commonwealth with any treason , felony , or other crime committed in any other of
the United States , or in any district or territory thereof , and such charge shall be
verified by ...
Page 505
... for any supposed defect or imperfection in any such indictment or information ,
so as the felony or offence therein , charged to have been committed or done , be
plainly and in substance set forth with convenient certainty , so as to enable the ...
... for any supposed defect or imperfection in any such indictment or information ,
so as the felony or offence therein , charged to have been committed or done , be
plainly and in substance set forth with convenient certainty , so as to enable the ...
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Page 7 - United States of America. He shall hold his office during the term of four years, and together with the vice-president, chosen for the same term, be elected as follows : 2. Each State shall appoint...
Page 11 - New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union ; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other State ; nor any State be formed by the junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the consent of the legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
Page 27 - Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and Disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honour, Trust or Profit under the United States : but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law.
Page 12 - Done in convention, by the unanimous consent of the States present, the seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and of the independence of the United States of America the twelfth.
Page 17 - That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Page 3 - Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgment require secrecy; and the yeas and nays of the members of either house on any question shall, at the desire of one fifth of those present, be entered on the journal.
Page 2 - ... 3. No person shall be a senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty years, and been nine years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state for which he shall be chosen.
Page 4 - States; 5 To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures; 6 To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States...
Page 5 - To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased, by the consent of the Legislature of the State in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings : and, 17.
Page 6 - ... 6. No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time. 7. No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States; and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign...
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| Title | Digest of the Laws of Virginia: Which are of a Permanent Character and General Operation; Illustrated by Judicial Decisions: to which is Added, an Index of the Names of the Cases in the Virginia Reporters, Volume 1 Digest of the Laws of Virginia: Which are of a Permanent Character and General Operation; Illustrated by Judicial Decisions: to which is Added, an Index of the Names of the Cases in the Virginia Reporters, George Wythe Munford Making of modern law : primary sources, 1763-1970 Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive. Part 3: The institution of slavery |
| Author | Joseph Tate |
| Compiled by | Joseph Tate |
| Contributor | Virginia |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Smith and Palmer, 1841 |
| Length | 959 pages |
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