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Law Reform – Suggested Revisions To Virginia's Wills Statutes: Part 2, John E. Donaldson
Law Reform – Suggested Revisions To Virginia's Wills Statutes: Part 2, John E. Donaldson
Popular Media
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Public Access To Virginia's Tidelands: A Framework For Analysis Of Implied Dedications And Public Presecriptive Rights, Margit Livingston
Public Access To Virginia's Tidelands: A Framework For Analysis Of Implied Dedications And Public Presecriptive Rights, Margit Livingston
William & Mary Law Review
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Law Reform – Suggested Revisions To Virginia's Wills Statutes: Part 1, John E. Donaldson
Law Reform – Suggested Revisions To Virginia's Wills Statutes: Part 1, John E. Donaldson
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Law In Colonial America: The Reassessment Of Early American Legal History, Warren M. Billings
Law In Colonial America: The Reassessment Of Early American Legal History, Warren M. Billings
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Law and Society in Puritan Massachusetts: Essex County, 1629-1692 by David Thomas Konig, and Dispute and Conflict Resolution in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, 1725-1825 by William E. Nelson, and Faithful Magistrates and Republican Lawyers: Creators of Virginia Legal Culture, 1680-1810 by A.G. Roeber
The Abolition Of The Forms Of Action In Virginia, William Hamilton Bryson
The Abolition Of The Forms Of Action In Virginia, William Hamilton Bryson
Law Faculty Publications
The common law procedure for initiating actions at law in the English courts required a plaintiff to obtain a writ invoking the jurisdiction of the court and to file a declaration setting forth the facts that justified instigation of the suit and established the cause of the action. This clumsy and archaic system of litigation was abolished by a single chop of the legislative guillotine in New York in 1848. England followed suit in 1875, and the United States federal courts in 1938. Writs and declarations were replaced by simple forms which were copied from the practice of the equity …