ABATEMENT.
Pleas in, how to be received 478.
Where suit shall not abate by
death of parties 510.

ABSENT DEBTORS.
How proceeded against, in chan-
cery 220. May shew cause
against decree within 7 years
223. When decree shall be
final 223. How defendants
permitted to answer 224.-
When barred 224.

ACCESSARIES.
Receivers of stolen horses, deem-

ed 249.

ACCOMACK.

Court day of, altered 60.

ACTIONS.

Limitation of real actions 415.
Proceedings on 416. Of per-
sonal actions 512,513
ACTS OF ASSEMBLY.
Representation against repeal
of certain acts 432. Form
of giving the royal assent to
559. Proclamation repeal-
ing certain acts passed at the
revisal of 1748, p. 567.

ADJOURNMENT.
Of general court, power of 320.
Of county courts 491.
ADJUTANT GENERAL.
He, his servant, and horses,
exempted from ferriage 23.
ADMINISTRATION.
County courts, may take proof

of wills, and grant adminis-
trations 456. Where execu-
tors refuse administration
with the will annexed may be
granted 455. Rules in grant-
ing administration 458.-
When creditors may take
458. Jurisdiction of general
court, in relation to 466.

ADMINISTRATORS.
Rules in appointing 456. Oath
of 459. Bond of 460. Duty
of in selling perishable goods
463. Allowance of 466.-
Lawyers fee not taxed against
497.

AD QUOD DAMNUM.
Proceedings on, to bar estates
tail, under a certain value
414,415.

AGE.

Of servants, imported without
indenture, how adjudged, 547.

ALBEMARLE

Parish of, in Surry, formed 76.
Vestry of, authorised to sell
certain lands 77. County,
formed from Goochland 267.
Boundaries 267. Court days
267. Court day altered 371.
AMELIA.

Court day of, altered 60.
APPEALS.

On conviction for gaming al-
lowed 230. On what terms

231. From judgment of in-
spector of pork, beef, pitch,
tar, turpentine, and flour, 354.
To general court, when to be
made 471. Rules concerning
481. Damages on 482.-
From county courts 505.

APPOMATTOX.
Courts of Henrico. Prince
George, Amelia, Goochland,
and Albemarle, authorised to
order the clearing of James
and Appomattox rivers 375.

APPRAISEMENTS.
Of decedents estates, how to be
made 462. Where no ap
praisement necessary 464.
APPRENTICES.

Poor orphans to be bound 452.
To serve out their full time
558.

ARMS.
Militia, how armed 17. Time
allowed to provide arms 21.
Arms exempted from seizure,
and distress 21. Mulattoes,
not to bear 17. To be car
ried to church 19. Further
supply of arms for militia 90.

ASSEMBLY.
General; to make good loss of
tobacco, by fire 150. Inspec-
tors ineligible to 153. Wages
of Burgesses to be paid in
money 172. Oath of electors,
in Williamsburg 206. Repre-
sentation against repealing
certain acts of, 432. Proc.
repealing those acts 567.-
Form of giving the royal as-
sent to an act of Assembly
559.

ASSENT.
Form of giving the royal assent
to an act of Assembly 559.
ASSIGNEES.
Of plats, liable for surveyors'
fees 51,341.

ATTACHMENTS.
May be levied, in the hands of
persons indebted to the party
absconding 59. Foreign at-
tachments, proceedings on
220,225. Against absconding
debtors, by whom to be serv-
ed238. Proceedings on 492,
493.

ATTORNEY, POWER OF
To confess judgment, void 240.
Penalty for appearing under

241.

ATTORNIES.
Their fees to be taxed, except
against executors and admin-
istrators 54. Act for grant-
ing licenses to, repealed 171.

Again revived and altered
345. Fecs of 181. Oath of
182. Fees when taxed 344.
Examiners of, appointed 345.
License, how obtained 345.
Oath of 346. Penalty for
practising without license and
oath 346. Misdemeanor of
347. Barristers not to ob-
tain license 347. Attornies,
not licensed, may finish cau-
ses 347. Punishable for con-
tempt 348,
And liable to
costs, for neglect 348,473.
Fees of, in general court. In
county courts 497. On peti

tions 499.

AUGUSTA.

-County, formed from Orange,
78. Boundaries 79. Court
days 79. Court day altered
371. County, certain taxes
authorised in, for the use of
the inhabitants 187. Inhabi-
tants of, to pay their propor-
tion of theexpences of running
dividing line, between that
county and Frederick 275.
BAIL.
In what cases, to be required
472. Where bail, or sheriff
liable 473. Sheriff's remedy
where bail adjudged insuffi-
cient 474. Where judgment
against defendant, or sheriff
and bail may be set aside 474.
Remedy for sheriff or bail,
where judgment confirmed
against them 474. Any
judge of general court, may
take recognizance of 475.—
Where the special bail shall
be liable 475. No special
bail, in suits upon penal laws
except expressly by the laws

required 475. In county

courts 495.

BANKS, WILLIAM.
Certain entailed lands of, in
King and Queen, vested in
George Braxton, the young-
er, and other land in King
William settled to the same
uses 214.215. Certain lands
in King William, entailed on,
vested in John Norton, 306.
BATH.
Parish of, formed from Bris-
tol, in Prince George 212.-
Part of added to Bristol 261.
BEEF See Pork, &c.
Inspection of established, 164.
Regulations concerning 164,
168. Act concerning amend-
ed 350,355.

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BELLFIELD, JOHN
Authorised to sell certain lands,
notwithstanding his infancy

285.

BRAXTON, GEORGE, Jr.
Certain entailed lands purchas-
ed of William Banks, vested
in 214,215.

BRENT, WILLIAM
Rents of certain of his lands, to
be applied by Peter Hedgman,
to payment of his debts 292.
BRIDGES.

How to be erected, between ad-
joining counties 33. To be
built over Nottoway river, at
Hunt's landing 107; and o-
ver Pamunky river, at New
Castle 108. Levies for, may
be laid by county courts 175.
BRISTOL.
Parish, in Prince George, divi-
ded and Bath formed 212.-
Part of added to Bath 261,

BRUNSWICK

County divided, and Lunenburg
formed $83.

BURGESSES.

Their wages to be paid in mo-
ney 172, 372, 404. Repre-
sentation of, against the pre-
rogative exercise by the king,
in repealing laws, by procla-
mation 432, note.

CALLED COURT.
How convened, its power and
duty, in relation to criminals

541.

CANADA.

Grant of money, for expedition
against 400.

CAPIAS AD SATISFACI-
ENDUM.

No justice of peace to grant 37.
CAROLINE.

County, part of King & Queen
added to 185.

CARTER, GEORGE
Of Middle Temple, London;
certain lands belonging to, in
Prince William, Fairfax, and
Frederick, vested in trustees
to be sold 300.

CATTLE.
Drivers of, to produce manifests
and bills of sale, and make
oath before the next justice
176. Duty of justice 177.
Like method to be observed
in every county, thro' which
the drove passes 177. Pen-
alty 177. Act concerning
further continued 247. To
be preserved for the heir 465.

CAUSEWAYS.

How to be made between adja-
cent counties 32.

CERTIORARI.

483. Not to be granted, to
remove a cause, not original-
ly cognizable in the general
court, 349. Suit remanded by
Certiorari, not afterwards
removed, 349. Notice and
affidavit, 549. False swear-
ing on, Perjury, 349.

CHALLENGE
Convicts entitled to benefit of,
26, 546. Of jurors, how to
be made 545. For the King,
must be upon good cause
shewn 545.
CHAMBERLAYNE, WIL-
LIAM.

Certain slaves of Wm. Cham-
berlayne, dec'd vested in trus-
tees, for the benefit of a pos-
thumous child 117.

CHANCERY.
Days appointed for hearing
chancery causes, in the gene-
ral court 320. Rules of prac-
tice in 484.

CHAPMAN. RICHARD,
Certain entailed lands, in King
William, vested in 114, 117.
CHURCH.

Militia to go armed to 19. Not
attending, what an excuse for
226.

CLERGY,

Benefit of where taken away by
any act of Parliament, prior
to the 4th of James I. taken
away in this country, for the
same offence 547. Where a
man would be entitled, a wo-
man equally entitled 546.
When a person convicted
shall have it, without reading
546.

CLERKS.

atious suits 509.

47. 331. Office of, to be in-
spected annually 344. To
tax attorneys fees 344.

COLLECTORS

Of duties, on skins and furs,
to be appointed 56. Power
and duty, in relation to li-
quors imported 313. How
appointed 317. Their salary
317. When to account, with
treasurer 317, 318.

CONSTABLES.
Their fees 50, 340. May search
for red deer skins 62. To be
sworn to prevent offences a-
gainst the act against unlaw-
ful hunting 63.

CONVEYANCES.

See Deeds.

Deeds for lands, how to be ac-
knowledged, proved, and re-
corded 408, 409.

CONVICTS.
How to be tried for capital of-
fences 25. Challenges allow
ed them 26. Rules concern-
ing trials of 545.

COOPER, SUSANNA,
Authorised to dispose of her
property, as a feme sole, not-
withstanding her husband
Isles Cooper, may happen to
be living 294.

COPIES.
Of pleadings, what taxable in
bill of costs, what not 46.

CORONERS.

Their fees 50, 340.

COSTS.

Rules in taxing, for copies 46.
In assault and battery, and
slander, where plaintiff shall
not recover costs 240. At-
torney's fee, when taxed 344.
Of costs in frivolous and vex-

Security

for to be given, by non-resi-
dents 512.

COUNCIL.

Members of the general court,
being councillors, may re-
ceive the salary, without vio-
lation of their oath, as judges
227. Process against a mem-
ber of 495.

COUNTIES.

Orange county divided, and all
that part westward of the
Blue Ridge, to the utmost li-
mits of Virginia, formed into
the counties of Frederick and
Augusta 78, 80. Part of
King and Queen added to Ca-
roline 185. Prince William
county divided, and Fairfax
formed 207. Hanover coun-
ty divided, and Louisa formed
208, 209. Goochland county
divided, and Albemarle form-
ed 266. Brunswick county
divided, and Lunenburg form-
ed 383.

COUNTY COURTS.
May lay levies, for building
bridges, &c. and such con-
tracts shall bind their succes-
sors 175. Act establishing
489. Justices to hold them
489.
Their oath as justices
generally 489. As justices in
chancery 490. Penalty for
acting without 490. Court
days 490. Adjournment of
491. Jurisdiction of court
What cases excepted
Warrants, for small
debts, determinable by a sin-
gle justice 491.
But no exe-
cution against the body 491,
Attachments against abscond-
ing debtors 492. Proceedings

491.

491.