 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 932 pages
...ftdoption is given as follows: "By an ordinance of 1776, Virginia adopted 'the common la-.v of England, and all statutes or acts of Parliament made in aid of the common law, prior to the fourth year of King James I., and which (were) of a general nature, and not local to that Kingdom.' And the 8th section... | |
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - Northwest, Old - 1899 - 458 pages
...an old Virginia statute of the colonial period " the common law of England, and all general statutes in aid of the common law prior to the fourth year of James I.," were put in force in the Territory. " The other laws of 1 795 were principally derived from... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 1044 pages
...the first constitution of the state, ordained that "the common law of England, all statutes or 809 acts of parliament made in aid of the common law prior to the fourth year of the reign of King James I, and which are of a general nature, not local to that kingdom, together with the several acts of... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 1050 pages
...the year 1792 so much of the ordinance of 1776 as adopted the acts of parliament of a general nature, made in aid of the common law prior to the fourth year of James I, was repealed by the legislature; but that part of the ordinance of 1776, which established... | |
 | Indiana. Appellate Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 792 pages
...eighth chapter of thirteenth Elizabeth, and the ninth chapter of thirty-seventh Henry the Eighth), and which are of a general nature, not local to that kingdom" and not inconsistent with the federal and state Constitutions, and not incorisistent with federal and... | |
 | Ohio - Session laws - 1901 - 580 pages
...assembly of the state of Ohio, That the common law of England, all statutes or acts of the British parliament, made in aid of the common law, prior to...are of a general nature not local to that kingdom, and also the several laws in force in this state, shall be the rule of decision and shall be considered... | |
 | Ohio - Session laws - 1901 - 124 pages
...force in this state," as declares the common law of England and the statutes or acts of the British parliament made in aid of the common law, prior to...fourth year of the reign of King- James the First, to be in force as the rule of decision in this state, be and the same is hereby repealed: Provided... | |
 | Law - 1900 - 326 pages
...July 14, 1795, which provided that "the common law of England, all the statutes or acts of the British Parliament made in aid of the common law, prior to the fourth year of the reign of King James I. (and which are of a general nature and not local to that kingdom), and also the several laws in... | |
 | Richard Ellsworth Fast, Hu Maxwell - West Virginia - 1901 - 536 pages
...to 1607. —The right and benefit of all writs, remedial and judicial, given by any statute or act of Parliament made in aid of the Common Law, prior to the fourth year of the reign of James I, (the year of the settlement of Jamestown, 1607) of a general nature, not local to England,... | |
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That the common law of England, all statutes or acts of Parliament made in aid of the common law prior to the fourth year of the reign of King James the first, and which are of a general nature, not local to that kingdom... 
