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Participatory Government And Communal Property: Two Radical Concepts In The Virginia Charter Of 1606, Finbarr Mccarthy Jan 1995

Participatory Government And Communal Property: Two Radical Concepts In The Virginia Charter Of 1606, Finbarr Mccarthy

University of Richmond Law Review

On April 26, 1607, about one hundred English men landed on the Atlantic shore of North America near Jamestown, Virginia. There they established the foundation for what would become the first permanent English colony in America. These men, and the men and women who followed in the next decade, left as their legacy a society that combined a rudimentary form of popular government with a system of private property. But these settlers established that society only after conducting seventeen turbulent years of social experiments. Had those experiments conducted in that Virginia swamp turned out differently, we might now live under …


University Of Richmond Law Review Jan 1995

University Of Richmond Law Review

University of Richmond Law Review

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Annual Survey Of Virginia Law: Property Law, L. Charles Long Jr., Gina M. Burgin, Pamela B. Beckner Jan 1995

Annual Survey Of Virginia Law: Property Law, L. Charles Long Jr., Gina M. Burgin, Pamela B. Beckner

University of Richmond Law Review

This article reviews selected judicial decisions and legislation affecting real property law in Virginia during the past year. Part I discusses some of the more significant cases decided by the Supreme Court of Virginia. Part II discusses some of this year's most significant legislation enacted by the Virginia General Assembly.


Quantifying Liability Under The Architect's Standard Of Care, Murray H. Wright, David E. Boelzner Jan 1995

Quantifying Liability Under The Architect's Standard Of Care, Murray H. Wright, David E. Boelzner

University of Richmond Law Review

In recent years, architects and other design professionals have become the targets of claims arising from problems encountered in construction projects. In addition to incurring the costs of defending such claims, these design professionals (or their insurers) have often found themselves absorbing the liability for many "errors and omissions" that are difficult to defend when individually excerpted from a substantial project. This treatment of claims for defective design reflects a distortion of the architect's professional standard of care that is justified neither by the contractual liability assumed by the architect nor by the economic balance among the parties involved in …