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A Letter Of Lewis Burwell To James Burrough, July 8, 1734, William Hamilton Bryson
A Letter Of Lewis Burwell To James Burrough, July 8, 1734, William Hamilton Bryson
Law Faculty Publications
Not long ago while rummaging through the record office in Bury St. Edmunds, I came across a letter 1 from Lewis Burwell (1710-1756) of Gloucester County, Virginia, to James Burrough (1691-1764), his cousin and former tutor at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, which sheds some light upon the Burwell family and the education of colonial Virginians in the mother country.
Inheritance Rights Of Children In Virginia, J. Rodney Johnson
Inheritance Rights Of Children In Virginia, J. Rodney Johnson
Law Faculty Publications
The rights of children to succeed to a deceased ancestor's property interests in Virginia are treated in some fifteen separate sections of the Virgina Code. When one considers that these fifteen sections were enacted over a period of 189 years, as the result of legislation introduced by various individuals who were at any given time focusing on a particular portion of this larger problem area without always taking into account the "spin-off' effect that their particular legislation might have on all of the other sections dealing with the succession rights of children, it is not surprising to find that there …