LibGuides: Primary Sources: Virginia: Law

Online Sources: Law - Virginia

Constitution of Virginia
Virginia Code
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This site from the Virginia General Assembly provides access to the Code of Virginia (the laws.) It can be searched or browse through the table of contents by Code Title. Also available is the Popular Name browse which allows users to select from an alphabetical list of Acts and Laws by their popular name.
Virginia General Assembly
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The General Assembly is the legislative body for the Commonwealth of Virginia. From this site users can find information about the legislature, find the full-text of bills and resolutions, access laws, and more.

Book Sources: Law - Virginia

A selection of books/e-books available in Trible Library.
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Annals of Southwest Virginia, 1769-1800 by Lewis Preston Summers
Call Number: F226.S955 A6
County Court Records of Accomack-Northampton, Virginia, 1640-1645 by Susie M. Ames
Call Number: F232.E2 A44 1973
ISBN: 0813903947
Criminal Proceedings in Colonial Virginia by Peter C. Hoffer (Editor); William B. Scott (Editor)
Call Number: KFV2916.R5 A7 1710
ISBN: 0820307203

(Records of) fines, examination of criminals, trials of slaves, etc. from March 1710 (1711) to (1754), (Richmond County, Virginia) / edited, with an introduction, by Peter Charles Hoffer ; edited and transcribed by William B. Scott.
Minutes of the Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia by Virginia. Council
Call Number: J87 V58

1622-1632, 1670-1676 : with notes and excerpts from original Council and General court records, into 1683, now lost
edited by H.R. McIlwaine
Opinions of the Attorney General and Report to the Governor of Virginia by Virginia. Office of the Attorney General
Call Number: KFV2840.5 .V817

1959-1977
Report of the proceedings and debates of the Constitutional Convention, state of Virginia
Call Number: JK3925 1901 .A2

held in the city of Richmond June 12, 1901, to June 26, 1902.
The Revised Code of the Laws of Virginia (Code of 1819. Commemorative ed.)
Call Number: K71.11 .V84 1819a

being a collection of all such acts of the General Assembly, of a public and permanent nature, as are now in force, with a general index : to which are prefixed, the Constitution of the United States; the Declaration of Rights; and the Constitution of Virginia.
St. George Tucker's Law Reports and Selected Papers, 1782-1825 by Charles F. Hobson (Editor); Joan S. Lovelace (Editor)
Call Number: KF213.T83 H63 2013
ISBN: 0807837210
The Statutes at Large (Virginia) by William Waller Hening
Call Number: KFV2425.2 1809

Being a collection of all the laws of Virginia, from the first session of the Legislature in the year 1619

a.k.a. Hening's Statutes at Large
The Statutes at Large of Virginia by Samuel Shepherd
Call Number: KFV2425.2 1792

From October session 1792, to December session 1806 [i.e. 1807] inclusive, in three volumes (new series,) being a continuation of Hening

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