The New Virginia Justice, Comprising the Office and Authority of a Justice of the Peace, in the Commonwealth of Virginia1810 - Forms (Law) - 688 pages |
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... negro slave named , ( or a horse , & c . ) at the price of , which amounts to the sum of more than the demand of the said A. C. including interest , costs and sheriff's ( or other officer's ) commissions on the said demand ; if ...
... negro slave named , ( or a horse , & c . ) at the price of , which amounts to the sum of more than the demand of the said A. C. including interest , costs and sheriff's ( or other officer's ) commissions on the said demand ; if ...
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... negro or mulatto , to commit either of the said offences , being thereof lawfully convicted , if the amount of the burning be of the value of ten dollars , he , she or they , shall be deemed guilty of felony , and shall suffer death ...
... negro or mulatto , to commit either of the said offences , being thereof lawfully convicted , if the amount of the burning be of the value of ten dollars , he , she or they , shall be deemed guilty of felony , and shall suffer death ...
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... negro or mulatto . IX . Nothing in this act contained shall be construed to take away the benefit of clergy from any offence in which it is now allowed by any act of the General Assembly , or to allow it in any offence , from which it ...
... negro or mulatto . IX . Nothing in this act contained shall be construed to take away the benefit of clergy from any offence in which it is now allowed by any act of the General Assembly , or to allow it in any offence , from which it ...
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... negro or mulatto , who shall keep or carry fire arms or ammunition , contrary to law . 2 Rev. Code , c . 88. sect . 2 . p . 108 , 109 . Also , to apprehend and carry before a justice , slaves who are per- mitted to go at large and hire ...
... negro or mulatto , who shall keep or carry fire arms or ammunition , contrary to law . 2 Rev. Code , c . 88. sect . 2 . p . 108 , 109 . Also , to apprehend and carry before a justice , slaves who are per- mitted to go at large and hire ...
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... one another . 2 Haw . 432 . 146. " No negro , mulatto , cr Indian , shall be admitted to give evi- dence , but against or between negroes , mulattoes , 31 EVIDENCE . 241 cation to the court, for an information against the ...
... one another . 2 Haw . 432 . 146. " No negro , mulatto , cr Indian , shall be admitted to give evi- dence , but against or between negroes , mulattoes , 31 EVIDENCE . 241 cation to the court, for an information against the ...
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Page 659 - The records and judicial proceedings of the courts of any state or territory, or of any such country, shall be proved or admitted in any other court within the United States, by the attestation of the clerk, and the seal of the court annexed, if there be a seal, together with a certificate of the judge, chief justice or presiding magistrate, that the said attestation is in due form.
Page 663 - Territory to which such person has fled, and produces a copy of an indictment found, or an affidavit made before a magistrate of any State or Territory, charging the person demanded with having committed treason, felony, or other crime, certified as authentic by the Governor or Chief Magistrate of the State or Territory from whence the person so charged has fled, it shall be the duty of the Executive authority of the State or Territory to which such person has fled to cause him to be arrested and...
Page 659 - And the said records and judicial proceedings, authenticated as aforesaid, shall have such faith and credit given to them in every Court within the United States, as they have by law or usage in the Courts of the State from whence the said records are or shall be taken.
Page 664 - ... empowered to seize or arrest such fugitive from labor, and to take him or her before any judge of the Circuit or District Courts of the United States, residing or being within the state, or before any magistrate of a county, city, or town corporate, wherein such seizure or arrest shall be made...
Page 650 - State where he may be found, and agreeably to the usual mode of process against offenders in such State, and at the expense of the United States, be arrested and imprisoned, or bailed, as the case may be, for trial before such court of the United States as by law has cognizance of the offense.
Page 663 - Whenever the executive authority of any state or territory demands any person as a fugitive from justice, of the executive authority of any state or territory to which such person has fled, and...
Page 669 - Large, 1 12,) provides in its third section, " that if any person or persons shall within any fort, arsenal, dock-yard, magazine, or in any other place or district of country under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, commit the crime of wilful murder, such person or persons, on being thereof convicted, shall suffer death.
Page 417 - ... the jury before whom any person indicted for murder shall be tried, shall, if they find such person guilty thereof, designate by their verdict, whether it be murder of the first or second degree...
Page 659 - If the said certificate is given by the presiding justice of a court, it shall be further authenticated by the clerk or prothonotary of the said court, who shall certify, under his hand and the seal of his office, that the...
Page 473 - Columbia, laborer, not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil...