TY  - GEN
T1  - Statute law in colonial Virginia : governors, assemblymen, and the revisals that forged the Old Dominion
A1  - Billings, Warren M., 1940-
LA  - English
PP  - Charlottesville
PB  - University of Virginia Press
YR  - 2021
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1157676321
AB  - "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"--
CN  - KFV2478 .B55 2021
SN  - 0813945658
SN  - 9780813945651
SN  - 9780813945644
KW  - Virginia. : General Assembly : History : 17th century.
KW  - Virginia. : General Assembly : History : 18th century.
KW  - Virginia. : General Assembly
KW  - Statutes : Virginia : History : 17th century.
KW  - Statutes : Virginia : History : 18th century.
KW  - Legislation : Virginia : History : 17th century.
KW  - Legislation : Virginia : History : 18th century.
KW  - Virginia : History : Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
KW  - Statuts : Virginie : Histoire : 17e siècle.
KW  - Statuts : Virginie : Histoire : 18e siècle.
KW  - Virginie : Histoire : ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale)
KW  - LAW / Legal History
KW  - Legislation
KW  - Statutes
KW  - Virginia
KW  - 1600-1799
KW  - History
ER  -