Statute law in colonial Virginia : governors, assemblymen, and the revisals that forged the Old Dominion /

Statute law in colonial Virginia : governors, assemblymen, and the revisals that forged the Old Dominion /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Billings, Warren M., 1940- author.
Imprint:	Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2021. ©2021
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Virginia. -- General Assembly -- History -- 17th century. Virginia. -- General Assembly -- History -- 18th century. Virginia. -- General Assembly Statutes -- Virginia -- History -- 17th century. Statutes -- Virginia -- History -- 18th century. Legislation -- Virginia -- History -- 17th century. Legislation -- Virginia -- History -- 18th century. Legislation Statutes Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Virginia Electronic books. History
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13456778

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ISBN:	0813945658 9780813945651 9780813945644
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 05, 2021).
Summary:	"Statute Law in Colonial Virginia: Governors, Assemblymen, and the Revisals that Forged the Old Dominion is an examination of the seven times Virginia's General Assembly revised the colony's statutes between 1632 and 1748. These revisals are a way to gauge how governors, councillors, and burgesses created a hybrid body of colonial statute law that would become the longest strand in the American legal fabric. His study provides insight into the colonial legislative process, the Assembly's statutory craftsmanship, and the ways in which assemblymen continually used their unbridled discretion to cement the position of elite colonists. There are also biographical sketches of colonial Virginia's leading politicians to provide context for the legislative processes"--
Other form:	Print version: Billings, Warren M., 1940- Statute law in colonial Virginia. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2021] 9780813945651

Table of Contents:

1. Acknowledgments
2. Preface
3. Author's Note
4. 1. Beginnings and the Acts of 1623/24
5. 2. Sir John Harvey and the Revisal of 1632
6. 3. Sir William Berkeley and the Revisal of 1643
7. 4. A New Constitutional Order
8. 5. Safeguarding Virginia's Autonomy
9. 6. The Long Road to the Revisal of 1705
10. 7. Sir William Gooch's Gift: The Revisal of 1748
11. 8. Endings
12. Notes
13. Bibliographic Essay
14. Index