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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Of the twenty - nine counties lying east of the Blue Ridge and above tide - water ,
the county of Loudoun , shall elect three ... cities , towns and boroughs lying east
thereof ; and for the election of whom , the counties , cities , towns and boroughs
...
Of the twenty - nine counties lying east of the Blue Ridge and above tide - water ,
the county of Loudoun , shall elect three ... cities , towns and boroughs lying east
thereof ; and for the election of whom , the counties , cities , towns and boroughs
...
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ELECTIONS , ( general law of . ) ... 3 Partiality in officer conducting elecWho
disqualified , tions , - - - - Delegates or senators , who may be , Contested
election , proceedings to be Who need not be , - - Election , when to take place ,
take place .
ELECTIONS , ( general law of . ) ... 3 Partiality in officer conducting elecWho
disqualified , tions , - - - - Delegates or senators , who may be , Contested
election , proceedings to be Who need not be , - - Election , when to take place ,
take place .
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88 . rate poll or polls may have been authorized to be held , shall , within six days
after the day on which such election shall have commenced , deliver to the clerk
of the county , city , town or borough , as the case may be , a copy of the poll by ...
88 . rate poll or polls may have been authorized to be held , shall , within six days
after the day on which such election shall have commenced , deliver to the clerk
of the county , city , town or borough , as the case may be , a copy of the poll by ...
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Any person intending to contest the election of any other person , as a senator or
delegate from any senatorial district , county , city , town or borough , or election
district , shall , within twenty - five days after the day on which the last election in ...
Any person intending to contest the election of any other person , as a senator or
delegate from any senatorial district , county , city , town or borough , or election
district , shall , within twenty - five days after the day on which the last election in ...
Page 318
On the day appointed for the trial , the committee of privileges and elections shall
proceed in the said disputed election , and report to the house of which they are
members , their opinion thereon , before they proceed to any other business ...
On the day appointed for the trial , the committee of privileges and elections shall
proceed in the said disputed election , and report to the house of which they are
members , their opinion thereon , before they proceed to any other business ...
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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.
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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.
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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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