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Barbour served as Justice of the Peace for Orange County, from 1768 until his death. From 1769 until 1776 (although the prorogued house had no quorum after June 24, 1775), Barbour represented Orange County in the Virginia House of Burgesses. [3] He was a Whig. [4] Thomas died at his son James Barbour's plantation, Barboursville on May 16, 1825 ...
In 1767, Charles became a justice of the peace of Bedford County, Virginia but was disowned by the Quakers for taking an oath of office, something they were not permitted to do. Lynch served in the Virginia House of Burgesses and the Convention from 1769 until 1778, when he became a militia colonel. In several incidents in 1780, Lynch and ...
The title justice of the peace derives from 1361, [3] in the reign of Edward III. The "peace" to be guarded is the sovereign's, the maintenance of which is the duty of the Crown under the royal prerogative. Justices of the peace still use the power conferred or re-conferred on them since 1361 to bind over unruly persons "to be of good behaviour ...
A justice of the peace is a judicial officer who serves as a legal authority close to the average citizen. The duties include hearing small claims lawsuits, preliminary hearings for felonies and ...
Garland P. Faison: [45] First African American male to serve as a Justice of the Peace in Greensville County, Virginia; Wilford Taylor, Jr.: [46] First African American male judge in Hampton, Virginia; Joseph (J.) Thomas Newsome: [47] First African American male lawyer from post-Civil War Newport News, Virginia to practice before the Supreme ...
The New Virginia Justice [ edit ] Hening's first important work was the New Virginia Justice (Richmond, 1795; Sowerby, no. 1971), designed as a handbook for local justices of the peace following the Revised Code of 1794, in the tradition of Webb's Justice and Starke's Justice (1774).
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.
Buchanan served as an Orange County magistrate for the Augusta district from 3 November 1741 to 10 October 1745, at which time the Virginia Council included him as the third most senior magistrate (subordinate only to James Patton and John Lewis) in the first Augusta County commission of the peace [28]: 191, 214 [15]: 84 In 1742 he was ...