The Statutes at Large: Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia, from the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619 : Published Pursuant to an Act of the General Assembly of Virginia, Passed on the Fifth Day of February One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eight ...1819 - Law |
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... hath been explained , amended , and continued , by three subsequent acts of assembly ; one of which , was made in the fifth , another in the eighth , and the other in the tenth year of the reign of his said majesty , hath been found ...
... hath been explained , amended , and continued , by three subsequent acts of assembly ; one of which , was made in the fifth , another in the eighth , and the other in the tenth year of the reign of his said majesty , hath been found ...
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... hath been listed eighteen months after the passing of this act . Any thing in this act to the contrary , or seeming to the contrary , in any wise , notwithstanding ; so as every soldier , during the said eighteen months , do appear at ...
... hath been listed eighteen months after the passing of this act . Any thing in this act to the contrary , or seeming to the contrary , in any wise , notwithstanding ; so as every soldier , during the said eighteen months , do appear at ...
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... hath been heretofore used ; but such persons shall be tried by a jury of the by - standers , in the general court , or court of oyer and terminer , as the case may be . Any law , usage , or custom , to the contrary , in any wise , not ...
... hath been heretofore used ; but such persons shall be tried by a jury of the by - standers , in the general court , or court of oyer and terminer , as the case may be . Any law , usage , or custom , to the contrary , in any wise , not ...
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... hath been found , by experience , to be an easy expedient for raising a revenue towards the lessening of a poll tax , always grievous to the people of this colo- ny , and is no ways burthensome to the traders in slaves . And whereas ...
... hath been found , by experience , to be an easy expedient for raising a revenue towards the lessening of a poll tax , always grievous to the people of this colo- ny , and is no ways burthensome to the traders in slaves . And whereas ...
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... hath in some instances proved ineffectual : and IV . Be it therfore enacted , by the authority afore- bridges and said , That where bridges and causeways are , or shall causeways to be necessary , for the conveniency of passing from one ...
... hath in some instances proved ineffectual : and IV . Be it therfore enacted , by the authority afore- bridges and said , That where bridges and causeways are , or shall causeways to be necessary , for the conveniency of passing from one ...
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Page 58 - ... the oaths appointed by an act of parliament made in the first year of the reign of our late royal father, to be taken instead of the oaths of allegiance and supremacy...
Page 466 - ... and the same goods, chattels and credits and all other the goods, chattels and credits of the said deceased at the time of his death, which at any time after shall come to the hands or possession of the said AB, or into the hands and possession of any other person or persons for him...
Page 466 - ... and if it shall hereafter appear that any last will and testament was made by the said deceased...
Page 311 - Use aforesaid, in as full and ample Manner to all Intents and Purposes, as any...
Page 465 - Deceased, do make or cause to be made a true and perfect Inventory of all and singular the Goods Chattels and Credits of the said Deceased...
Page 463 - ... were present at the making thereof; nor unless it be proved that the testator, at the time of pronouncing the same, did bid the persons present or some of them, bear witness that such was his will or to that effect...
Page 182 - ... any thing in this act contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.
Page 439 - An Act for the further security of His Majesty's person and Government, and the succession of the Crown in the Heirs of the late Princess Sophia, being Protestants, and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and his open and secret abettors...
Page 173 - ... may it therefore please your Most Excellent Majesty that it may be enacted ; and be it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that so much of the said Act...
Page 463 - And be it further enacted, that no will in writing concerning any goods or chattels, or personal estate, shall be repealed, nor shall any clause, devise or bequest therein, be altered or changed by any words, or will by word of mouth only, except the same be in the life of the testator committed to writing, and after the writing thereof read unto the testator, and allowed by him, and proved to be so done by three witnesses at the least.