Digest Of The Laws Of Virginia Of A Criminal Nature

First published in 1810, this book is a comprehensive guide to the criminal laws of the state of Virginia. It covers a wide range of topics, including crimes against the person and property, as well as procedures for criminal trials and appeals. This book is an invaluable resource for legal scholars, historians, and anyone interested in the history of criminal law in the United States. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Excerpt from Digest of the Laws of Virginia of a Criminal Nature No apology is needed, to the profession, for presenting them with a second edition of this Digest. The first edition made its appearance just before the commencement of the late civil war, when the demand for legal publications was very limited. Inter arma silent leges. At the close of hostilities, so much of the first edition as remained on hand was destroyed by the great conflagration in Richmond city, to wit, in April, 1865. Since that time the greater part of the criminal statutes have been amended and re-enacted, new statutes passed, and several volumes of decisions of the Supreme Court of Appeals have been published. Other changes have been made necessary by the new State Constitution, prefixed to the work. While this edition was passing through the press, and just after the last chapter had been printed, the Acts of 1870-1871 were published, making further changes in the criminal law, particularly in the chapters on "Trial and its Incidents," and the "Penitentiary;" and a law has been enacted enlarging the jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace. These may be found in the Addenda, at the end of the work. The subjects in this, as in the first edition, were alphabetically arranged, but through inadvertence of the printers, this arrangement has been partially altered. The alteration was not detected in time to have it corrected. Some valuable forms for clerks of courts in swearing and charging juries may be found incorporated with the notes, in their appropriate places. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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