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 ...Franklin Press, 1820 - Law |
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acres act of assembly allowed appointed authority afore authority aforesaid bond cask certificate CHAP charge chattels clerk collector colony and dominion constable copy thereof Coun Council county court court of record current money declared deed defendant directed duty entring execution executors fee simple fees forfeit and pay further enacted glebe governor granted hath hereafter hereby enacted hereby impowered hogshead hundred pounds Indian inspectors intituled John Holloway judgment justice King King George county levy Lieutenant-Governor liquors Maj'ties majesty majesty's ment mentioned Nansemond county negro oath offence owner oyer and terminer paid paiment parish peace Penalty pence person or persons persons whatsoever plaintiff plantation pounds of tobacco pounds per annum Preamble present General Assembly prison Provided quit-rents recovered reign rent respectively river Robert Carter seised sheriff shillings ship or vessel summons tenements therein Thomas Bray three pence tion tithables twenty vestry warehouse whereas writ
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Page 211 - ... that then and in such case it shall and may be lawful to and for the said...
Page 18 - AB, or into the hands or possession of any other person or persons for him, do well and truly administer according to law, and further do make or cause to be made a true and...
Page 19 - Deceased, do make or cause to be made a true and perfect Inventory of all and singular the Goods Chattels and Credits...
Page 101 - Provided always, that if any such witness shall refuse to enter into or acknowledge such recognizance as aforesaid it shall be lawful for such justice or justices of the peace...
Page 297 - Time; and that all Bonds, Contracts, and Assurances whatsoever, made after the Time aforesaid, for Payment of any Principal or Money to be lent or covenanted to be performed upon or for any Usury, whereupon or whereby there shall be reserved or taken above the rate of Five Pounds in the Hundred, as aforesaid, shall be utterly void...
Page 307 - Which persons so elected, having taken the oaths appointed by law, and subscribed to be conformable to the doctrine and discipline of the church of England, shall, to all intents and purposes, be deemed and taken to be the vestries of the said new parishes, respectively.— Hening, Statutes at Large, V, 78-80.
Page 214 - ... any person or persons whatsoever, where the whole or any part of the consideration of such conveyances or securities shall be for any money, or other valuable thing whatsoever, won by gaming or playing at cards, dice, tables, tennis, bowls or other game or games whatsoever, or by betting on the sides or hands of such as do...
Page 292 - ... such goods or chattels by virtue of such execution; provided the said arrears of rent do not amount to more than one year's rent; and in case the said arrears shall exceed one year's rent, then the said party, at whose suit such execution is sued out, paying the said landlord or his bailiff one...
Page 215 - ... or other game or games whatsoever, or by betting on the sides or hands of such as do game at any of the games aforesaid...
Page 375 - Together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging, or in any wise appertaining, and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues and profits thereof. And also all the estate, right, title, interest, property, possession, claim and demand whatsoever, as well in law as in equity, of the said party of the first part, of, in, and to the same, and every part and parcel thereof with the appurtenances...