Statute law in colonial Virginia : governors, assemblymen, and the revisals that forged the Old Dominion / Warren M. Billings.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Billings, Warren M., 1940- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Virginia. General Assembly--History--17th century.

Virginia.

Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Statutes--Virginia--History--17th century.

Statutes.

Statutes--Virginia--History--18th century.

Legislation--Virginia--History--17th century.

Legislation.

Legislation--Virginia--History--18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Statute Law in Colonial Virginia: Governors, Assemblymen, and the Revisals that Forged the Old Dominion is an examination of the seven times Virginia's General Assembly revised the colony's statutes between 1632 and 1748. These revisals are a way to gauge how governors, councillors, and burgesses created a hybrid body of colonial statute law that would become the longest strand in the American legal fabric. His study provides insight into the colonial legislative process, the Assembly's statutory craftsmanship, and the ways in which assemblymen continually used their unbridled discretion to cement the position of elite colonists. There are also biographical sketches of colonial Virginia's leading politicians to provide context for the legislative processes"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Beginnings and the Acts of 1623/24

Sir John Harvey and the Revisal of 1632

Sir William Berkeley and the Revisal of 1643

A New Constitutional Order, The Revisals of 1652 and 1658

Safeguarding Virginia's Autonomy Sir William Berkeley, Francis Moryson, Henry Randolph, and the Revisal of 1662

The Long Road to the Revisal of 1705

Sir William Gooch's Gift, The Revisal of 1748

Endings.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813945644

081394564X

OCLC:

1157676321