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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Page 424
The clerks of county and corporation courts shall receive , for attending a court for
the examination or trial of offenders , if a court be held for that purpose , three
dollars and fifty cents , to be paid by the public ; and for all other public services ...
The clerks of county and corporation courts shall receive , for attending a court for
the examination or trial of offenders , if a court be held for that purpose , three
dollars and fifty cents , to be paid by the public ; and for all other public services ...
Page 512
If any sheriff or other officer shall receive any money , goods or chattels in
pursuance of the above section , and shall fail to return the summons , or make a
false return thereon , or shall fail to pay the money by him received , he shall be
liable ...
If any sheriff or other officer shall receive any money , goods or chattels in
pursuance of the above section , and shall fail to return the summons , or make a
false return thereon , or shall fail to pay the money by him received , he shall be
liable ...
Page 706
... or accepting or receiving any emolument whatsoever from the United States ,
shall be capable of holding any office ... or soldiers , on account of the
recompense they may receive from the United States , when called out into actual
duty .
... or accepting or receiving any emolument whatsoever from the United States ,
shall be capable of holding any office ... or soldiers , on account of the
recompense they may receive from the United States , when called out into actual
duty .
Page 854
Any person who shall , on the sabbath day , buy , sell , or receive í of , to , or from
a slave , any commodity whatsoever , without the leave or consent of the master
or overseer of such slave , given in writing , or shall buy , sell , or receive of , to ...
Any person who shall , on the sabbath day , buy , sell , or receive í of , to , or from
a slave , any commodity whatsoever , without the leave or consent of the master
or overseer of such slave , given in writing , or shall buy , sell , or receive of , to ...
Page 865
... of the county , wherein such register shall be made , shall be delivered to the
said negro or mulatto , on application , for which copy the clerk may demand and
receive twenty - five cents , to be paid by the person receiving the same ; ' but no
...
... of the county , wherein such register shall be made , shall be delivered to the
said negro or mulatto , on application , for which copy the clerk may demand and
receive twenty - five cents , to be paid by the person receiving the same ; ' but no
...
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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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