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The Superior Courts of Chancery were created in 1802 to handle chancery matters initially handled by the High Court of Chancery. The state was divided into three chancery districts and cases from the counties composing the district were tried in a fixed location within each district. The records were kept in that location.
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 ...
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 clerk’s office was burned on December 15, 1864, and the court minute books and loose records from 1787 to 1819 were destroyed. Other records sent to Richmond, Virginia for safekeeping during the civil war were lost in the fire there on April 3, 1865.
Although the library's primary focus is on the central Virginia area, collections include a wide variety of materials covering the State of Virginia as well as the surrounding states, including county histories and court records, family histories and genealogies, general works on the Civil War, county land tax and personal property tax records ...
The Supreme Court of Virginia is the highest court in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It primarily hears direct appeals in civil cases from the trial-level city and county circuit courts , as well as the criminal law , family law and administrative law cases that are initially appealed to the Court of Appeals of Virginia .
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 ...