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The Virginia General Assembly passed a law creating the High Court of Chancery during its October 1777 session. [1] The Court met in the state capitol and was given jurisdiction over all equity cases for the entire state of Virginia, including those pending at the time in the General Court. [2]
The Estate of Richard Stafford, Microfilmed records from the Mineral County Library, Romney, West Virginia; transcribed by Casey L. Stafford, 2007. Virginia Chancery Court, Frederick County, VA; Date 1823-1834; Stafford vs. Stafford; transcribed by Casey L. Stafford, 2007. Deed Books 19-24, Frederick County, Virginia
It was formerly known as the Virginia State Library and as the Virginia State Library and Archives. Formally founded by the Virginia General Assembly in 1823, the Library of Virginia organizes, cares for, and manages the state's collection of books and official records, many of which date back to the early colonial period.
After the Confederacy's surrender, Barton read law in Winchester. In September 1865, he was admitted to the bar and became one of the leading lawyers in the state. [4] He was also author of some standard textbooks, Barton’s Law Practice [5] and Barton’s Chancery Practice, [6] and edited a two-volume set of the records of Virginia's colonial courts, Virginia Colonial Decisions: The Reports ...
Robert Williams (circa 1740 – circa 1793) was an American lawyer, patriot, planter and politician in Virginia and North Carolina, who served in the fifth Virginia Revolutionary Convention, first meeting of the Virginia House of Delegates in 1776 and in 1788 the Virginia Ratifying Convention, all representing Pittsylvania County, as well as led Pittsylvania's militia during the American ...
The Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA) is a consortium of nonprofit academic libraries within the Commonwealth of Virginia.Members include all of the 39 state-assisted colleges and universities (the six doctoral degree-granting universities, nine four-year institutions, and 24 community and two-year branch colleges), as well as 34 of the independent (private, nonprofit) institutions and the ...
The youngest son, Philip Norborne Nicholas(1776-1849) became Virginia's attorney general not long after his father's death, and later a Virginia judge, but perhaps today is best known either as the prosecutor of George Wythe's murderer or as a member of the powerful Richmond junto. His twin, Lewis Valentine Nicholas (1776-1840), lived mostly in ...
This is a list of past and present judges of the Supreme Court of Virginia.The court's name was the Supreme Court of Appeals until it was changed in 1971. [1] Members were titled Judge until a 1928 constitutional amendment changed the title to Justice and designated the presiding member Chief Justice.