Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, Volume 46D. Bottom, Superintendent of Public Print., 1898 - Law reports, digests, etc Some vols. also contain reports of cases in the General Court of Virginia. |
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... decree was made recommitting the report , and directing a sale of the slave Squire for the purpose of a division among the distributees of Edmund Wood . From this decree Rosser applied for and obtained an appeal to this Court . Wood V ...
... decree was made recommitting the report , and directing a sale of the slave Squire for the purpose of a division among the distributees of Edmund Wood . From this decree Rosser applied for and obtained an appeal to this Court . Wood V ...
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... decree of the Circuit Court as directs the sale of said slave by a commissioner , with the view of distributing the proceeds thereof amongst the appellees entitled thereto , and as holds the appellant chargeable with such hires from the ...
... decree of the Circuit Court as directs the sale of said slave by a commissioner , with the view of distributing the proceeds thereof amongst the appellees entitled thereto , and as holds the appellant chargeable with such hires from the ...
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... decree estab- lishing their right of freedom . They then asked for a decree for the profits of their labour since the death of their testator . This decree was asked on the ground that the defendants had obtained them in slavery with a ...
... decree estab- lishing their right of freedom . They then asked for a decree for the profits of their labour since the death of their testator . This decree was asked on the ground that the defendants had obtained them in slavery with a ...
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... decree in their favour , ask a further decree for the profits of their labour , while they were held in slavery . It is not pretended that they stand upon any higher ground than if they had re- covered their freedom and asserted their ...
... decree in their favour , ask a further decree for the profits of their labour , while they were held in slavery . It is not pretended that they stand upon any higher ground than if they had re- covered their freedom and asserted their ...
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... decree of the Circuit Court . The other Judges concurred in the opinion of Bald- win , J. DECREE AFFIRMED . 1848 . April Term . Richmond . Governor for LIGGATT v . WITHERS . ( Absent Daniel , J. * ) 1. A custom known and acquiesced in ...
... decree of the Circuit Court . The other Judges concurred in the opinion of Bald- win , J. DECREE AFFIRMED . 1848 . April Term . Richmond . Governor for LIGGATT v . WITHERS . ( Absent Daniel , J. * ) 1. A custom known and acquiesced in ...
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Page 582 - The judicial power of this State, both as to matters of law and equity, shall be vested in a Supreme Court, in Courts of Common Pleas for each County, in Justices of the Peace, and in such other courts as the Legislature may, from time to time, establish.
Page 501 - The defendant after conviction is entitled to all the benefit of the act for the relief of insolvent debtors...
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Page 317 - ... so far as respects debts contracted subsequent to the passage of such law. Thirdly, but that a certificate of discharge under such a law cannot be pleaded in bar of an action brought by a citizen of another State in the courts of the United States, or of any other State than that where the discharge was obtained.
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Page 580 - to provide for the more convenient organization of the courts of the United States...
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