The Code Of Virginia Etc Second Edition Including Legislation To The Year 1860

Author : George Wythe Munford
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781528287203
Total Pages : 1052 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book The Code of Virginia written by George Wythe Munford and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Code of Virginia: Including Legislation to the Year 1860 The general assembly having honored the secretary of the commonwealth, so far as to entrust this important work entirely to him, he has felt the responsibility deeply, and no thought or labor has been spared in the earnest endeavor to accomplish the task so as to make the work reliable as a full and correct exhibition of the law. Great difficulty has been encountered in properly inserting alterations and amend ments, without changing phraseology, and also in deciding upon the chapters in which particular laws should be inserted, such changes being necessary in many parts of the volume. For example the first edition has various chapters which are applicable to the officers of government - as justices of the peace, sheriffs, clerks, commissioners of the revenue and other county officers. Among the amendments is a law relating to general elections, which provides for the election, qualification, execution of-bonds, terms of service, removal, duties, powers and obligations of all these, and many other officers of the government. The constitution of the state having provided that these officers should be elected by the people, all those parts of the chapters which provided for the appointment of these officers by other tribunals, were necessarily repealed. In omitting the sections thus repealed, the chapters seemed wholly incomplete without some substitute. Under such circumstances, it has been thought best to frame a sec tion containing references to the chapters in which the provisions necessary are found. Thus, in the chapter of clerks of courts, an Opening section has been inserted, pro viding that the clerks of the county and corporation courts and of the circuit courts shall be elected in the manner prescribed in the seventh chapter, and their terms of. Office, the creation of vacancies and the mode of supplying them, and the appointment of clerks pro tempore, shall also be as therein provided. The time for the commence ment of their terms, the mode of taking oaths and giving bonds, and their removal from office, shall be as prescribed by the eighth chapter; and the mode of contesting their elections according to the provisions of the tenth chapter. 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.