The Statutes at Large: Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia, from the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619 : Published Pursuant to an Act of the General Assembly of Virginia, Passed on the Fifth Day of February One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eight ...Samuel Pleasants, Junior, printer to the commonwealth, 1819 |
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Page 64 - ... the oaths appointed by an act of parliament made in the first year of the reign of our late royal father, to be taken instead of the oaths of allegiance and supremacy...
Page 445 - Representatives of the people so to be summoned as aforesaid, to make, constitute, 'and ordain laws, statutes, and ordinances for the public peace, welfare, and good government of our said colonies, and of the people and inhabitants thereof, as near as may be agreeable to the laws of England...
Page 445 - An Act for the further security of His Majesty's person and Government, and the succession of the Crown in the Heirs of the late Princess Sophia, being Protestants, and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and his open and secret abettors...
Page 471 - The condition of this obligation is such, that if the above bounden administrator of all and singular the goods and chattels, and credits of the deceased, do make, or cause to be made, a true and perfect inventory of all and singular, the real estate, goods chattels, and credits, of the said deceased...
Page 316 - ... an act, made in the first year of the reign of king William and queen Mary, intituled, An Act for exempting their Majesties' Protestant Subjects, dissenting from the Church of England, from the Penalties of certain Laws...
Page 436 - ... the one half of the said forfeiture to be paid to the treasurer of the state, for the use of the state, and the other half to...
Page 469 - ... were present at the making thereof; nor unless it be proved that the testator, at the time of pronouncing the same, did bid the persons present or some of them, bear witness that such was his will or to that effect...
Page 468 - ... or unless the same be altered by some other will or codicil in writing, or other writing of the devisor, signed in the presence of three or four witnesses declaring the same; any former law or usage to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 242 - ... the sum of five pounds, to be levied by distress and sale of his and their goods, by warrant of any two justices of the peace, where such waggoner or carrier shall reside, in manner aforesaid, to the use of the party grieved.
Page 238 - Warrants under the Hands and Seals of such Justices, together with the reasonable Costs of such Distress and Sale ; and in case it shall appear to the Satisfaction of such Justices...