Statute Law in Colonial Virginia

Statute Law in Colonial Virginia
Author: Warren M. Billings
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2021-02-22
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0813945658

Between 1632 and 1748, Virginia’s General Assembly revised the colony’s statutes seven times. These revisals provide an invaluable opportunity to gauge how governors, councilors, and burgesses created a hybrid body of colonial statute law that would become the longest strand in the American legal fabric. In Statute Law in Colonial Virginia, Warren Billings presents a series of snapshots that depict the seven revisions of the corpus juris the General Assembly undertook. In so doing, he highlights the good, the corrupt, and the loathsome applications of broad legislative authority throughout the colonial era. Each revision was built on prior written law and embodies the members’ legal knowledge and statutory craftsmanship, revealing their use of an unbridled discretion to further the interests they represented. Statutes undergirded Virginia’s evolving legal culture, and by examining these revisals and their links, Billings casts light on the hybrid nature of Virginia statute law and its relation to English laws.

The British Transatlantic Slave Trade Vol 2

The British Transatlantic Slave Trade Vol 2
Author: Kenneth Morgan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2021-12-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000559556

Contains primary texts relating to the British slave trade in the 17th and 18th century. The first volume contains two 18th-century texts covering the slave trade in Africa. Volume two focuses on the work of the Royal African company, and volumes three and four focus on the abolitionists' struggle.