County courts, failing to re- commend, governor & coun- cil may commission 11. In- spectors, in office, and again recommended, may be contin- ued so long as they behave themselves 11. Failing to attend, at certain periods, lia-. ble to a penalty 11. Shall ac- count for tobacco gained by allowance for, cask 11.- Weight of hogsheads of trans fer and crop tobacco 12.- Oath of 12. Penalty for fail ing 15. Inspectors removed, liable to action, for costs and damages 14. When to at- tend warehouses 98. County courts to nominate annually 129. On failure, governor may appoint 180. Justices, being inspectors, or in the nomination, not to vote 130. Inspectors to give bond 130. Oath of 131,152. Within what periods to attend 131. Penalty, for neglect 131.- Directions for receiving and marking 132. And, in case of disagreement or sickness 132. How their own tobacco to be passed 132. Salaries of 143, 144, 145. How paid
146. Ineligible to the Gene- ral Assembly 153. Penalty for interfering in elections 153. For taking any gratu- ity 154. Further duty of 156. When to make return to court 158. When to ac count with treasurer 158.- Proceedings against, breach of duty 158,159.
ance 165. When to attend warehouses 175. Salaries al- tered 233. When to attend 235. Inspectors salaries $25. INTLAIS-See Fee Tail Lands. INTESTATES' ESTATES. Distribution of personal estate, except slaves 444. Wife's part 444. Children's part 444. Heir at law to have equal share 444. Children dying intestate, in the mother's life- time 444. Where no children or representatives 445. Who may be representatives 445. Where the intestate dies with- out wife 445. Widow's dow- er of slaves 445. How to be recovered 445. Held and determined, vested in the heir 445. Also all the other slaves, but he must account with the other children for the apprais- ed value 445. Former titles, in slaves, confirmed 445.- Widow, or her husband, per- mitting dower slaves to be carried out of the country, for feits them 446. Partition of slaves, how made 446. Pro- portion, how recovered of heir at law 446. What part of his estate, a testator shall leave his wife 447. How she may renounce the will 447. Within what time 447.- When distribution shall be made 448. Widow's dower in lands 448. Except where there is a jointure 448.
INVASIONS AND INSUR- RECTIONS.
164. Their duty and allow-
pork and beef, how appointed | Act providing against, continu-
and amended 99. Further continued 228.
INVENTORIES.
To be returned, by executors and administrators 462.
ISLE OF WIGHT. County, court day altered 371.
JAMES CITY.
County of, and York, to pay sergeant and constables 264. Sheriff of, authorised to sum- mon jurors, in any part of Williamsburg 386.
JAMES RIVER. The courts of Henrico, Prince George, Amelia, Goochland, and Albemarle, authorised to order the clearing of James and Appomattox rivers 375. Certain funds vested in trus- tees, for clearing Fluvanna 'river 377.
JEOFFAILS. Statute of, declared in force 452.
JOINTURE.
In bar of dower 448.
JUDGMENT BONDS. Declared void 240. Penalty for appearing under power of at- torney with such 241.
JUDGMENTS. Power of attorney to confess,
void 241,511. Judgments on bonds for payment of money, how to be entered 511. JURIES. Qualification of, for trial of con- victs 25. Sheriff of James City authorised to summon in any part of Williamsburg 386. Grand juries, when and how summoned 523. Present- ments, how made 523. Fines on jurors 524. On courts
524. On sheriffs 524. Pro- ceedings on presentments 524. Grand juries, at the general court 524. What offences they may present 525. Rules in presentments 525. She- riff's duty, in summoning ju- ries 525. Fine for neglect 525. Qualification of jurors 525. In the general court 525. In the county courts 526. Not to be challenged after sworn 526.
JURISDICTION. Of general court 469. Of coun- ty courts 491.
JUSTICES OF PEACE. Not to grant execution against the body 37. May make con- tracts which will be obliga- tory on their successors 175. KENDALL, JOSHUA Certain intailed lands of John Wallop, vested in 83,84. KING.
His power to repeal laws, by proclamation, questioned 432. Form of giving the roy- al assent to a law 559. Pro- clamation repealing certain laws passed at the revisal of 1748 p. 567.
KING & QUEEN. County, part of, added to Caro- line 185.
KING WILLIAM. County, court day altered 371. LANDS.
Vestry of Albemarle parish, in
Surry, authorised to sell cer- tain lands 76. Vestry of St. Paul's parish, in Hanover, authorised to sell certain lands 77. Certain intailed lands of John Wallop, in Acco-
mack, vested in Joshua Ken- dall 83. Ralph Wormloy au- thorised to sell certain intail- ed lands, to raise sister's por- tions 85,89. Certain entail- ed lands, in Charles City, vested in Philip Lightfoot, in fee-simple 111. Certain en- tailed lands, in King Willi- am, vested in Richard Chap- man, in fee 114. Survey- ors of, not to deliver certifi- cate, copy, or plat of land, but to the person for whom surveyed, unless his fees be refused, or the land be legally forfeited 170. Certain en- tailed lands, in King & Queen, vested in George Braxton, the younger 214. Frances Greenhill, authorised to sell certain lands in Prince George and Surry, notwithstanding her covorture 216, 219. Dis- puted bounds of, at whose costs to be laid out 246.- Mann Page, of Gloucester, authorised to sell certain en- tailed lands 277,284. John Belfield authorised to sell cer- tain lands, notwithstanding his infancy 285. Peter Hedg- man authorised to apply rents of certain lands, to payment of debts of William Brent 292. Entail of certain lands docked and yested in Francis West 297. Certain lands of George Carter, in Prince William, Frederick, and Fair- fax, vested in trustees, to be sold 300. Certain lots, in Tappahannock, vested in the purchasers 305. Certain lands in King William, en-
tail of certain lands in Glou- cester, of the estate of Tho- mas Todd, docked $95. En- tail of certain lands, in Glou- cester, of the estate of John Smith, docked 397. How and when deeds for lands shall be acknowledged, or proved and recorded 408. In what courts 408. Within what time 400. Number of wit- nesscs 409. Livery of seizen 409. Former deeds valid, though not recorded 409.- When void as to creditors 409. Yet binding between the parties 410. Deed by husband and wife, passes the estate of the .wife 410. Re- linquishment of dower, how taken 410. Effect of 410.- Privy examination must be recorded 411. Memorials to be certified and recorded 411. Former conveyances confirm- ed 412. Estates tail, can on- ly be barred, by act of As- sembly 414. Exceptions, as to estates under a certain va- lue 414. Proceedings, by writ of ad quod damnum, in such cases 415. Limitation of real actions 415. Process in writs of right and real ac- tions 416. Confirmation of former patents 417. Patents to be recorded 417. Surplus
land to be granted to patentee 417. Double patents 418.- Improvements 418. Lapsed land, when and how 418.- By judgment of general court 418. Method of petitioning for 419. Summons and other proceedings 419, 420. Pro- viso in favor of infants and non-residents 420. Limita- tion of petitions for lapsed land 421. Swamps, marshes, and sunken grounds, how ob- tained 421. Certain patents for, void 422. Saving to in- fants 422. Surplus lands, how obtained 422. Allow- ance for variation of instru- ments 423. Privilege of ten- ant in tail, or by the curtesy
423. Liable for quit-rents 424. Surveys of land, how and by whom made 424.- What deemed a seating and planting 424, 425. Once
made, forever valid 426.- Processioning of lands, when and how made 426,427,428. Bounds three times proces- sioned, shall never be altered 428. Saving to heirs and per- sons under legal disabilities 429, 430.
Penalty for un- lawful hunting 430. What good evidence, in prosecu- tions for 431. Fire-hunting, penalties for 431. Devise of, must be in writing, and how attested 456.
LAPSED LANDS. Where land shall lapse, for want of seating and planting 418. Proceedings to obtain lapsed land 419,420. Saving to in-
fants and non-residents 420. Of presentments, by grand ju-
ries 226. Of actions real 415. Act for limitation of actions 513. Limitation of various 513,514. Exceptions 514. LIQUORS. Act laying duties on, further continued 26. Further al- lowance for leakage 27. Not to extend to certain appro- priated duty 27. Master or owner may detain for duty 27. Liquors, when seizable 27. Act laying duty on, continu- ed 161. Further continued 236. Acts laying duties on, reduced into one 310,318.
LIVERY OF SEISIN, Must be recorded with deed 409. LOUISA.
County, formed from Hanover 208. Boundaries 208.- Court days 209. Court day altered 265.
LUNENBURG. County, formed from Bruns wick 383. Boundaries 383. Court days 383. Public le- vies and fees in, how payable in tobacco 382. Surveyor, to reside in 582.
MARINERS. Exempted from payment of tythes 36. How they may make a will 457. MARSHES-Sec Swamps. MEMORIALS.
Of deeds, to be sent to the se- cretary's office, and there re- corded 411.
Who shall be enrolled in 16.— Certain evempts, to furnish a substitute 16, 17. Others wholly exempted 17. How militia to be armed 17. Mu-
lattoes, not to bear arms 17. Duty of officers, and punish- ment of disobedient soldiers 18. Provision, for going armed to church, and appoint- ing patroles 19. Courts mar- tial 19. Fines 20,22. Arms, how furnished 21. Exempt- ed from seizure, or distress 21. Exempted overseers and millers, not to appear at mus- ters 29. Sheriff, failing to collect fines 23. Oaths of officers 25. Adjutant gene- ral ferry free 23. Exceptions as to Williamsburg 23. In- habitants of the borough of Norfolk, not compellable to serve in the militia of the County 81. Nor sailors, in actual service 81. All sol- diers to give their personal attendance at musters 91. Company musters 91. Ge- neral musters 91. Fines 91 Power of courts martial to remit 91.
MILL-DAMS. How roads passing over, to be kept 34. Penalty on owner or occupier, for neglect 34. MILLERS, Exempted from militia duty, not to appear at musters 22. MILLS.
Owners of, to keep roads in re- pair, crossing their dams 34. Persons intending to build, how to proceed 359. Where he owns the land on both sides the water-course 360. Not to extend to mills heretofore built 360. Saving, as to own- ers of old mills 361. How a fee simple acquired in entailed
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