Virginia Judiciary
During the colonial era, the General Court was the "supreme" court in Virginia. It was composed of the Governor and his Council. (The Council was appointed to advise the Governor and served as a rough equivalent of the modern State Senate.)
Brent Tarter at The Library of Virginia has identified the six Virginians who
have served on the United States Supreme Court:
- Philip Pendleton Barbour (1783-1841), associate justice 1736-1841
- John Blair (1731-1800), associate justice 1789-1796
- Peter Vivian Daniel (1784-1860), associate justice 1841-1860
- John Marshall (1755-1835), chief justice 1801-1835
- Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr., (1907-1998), associate justice 1972-1987
- Bushrod Washington (1762-1829), associate justice 1798-1829.
The laws passed by the General Assembly are organized in the Code of Virginia. The most recent compilation was in 1950, so references to Title and Section refer to the 1950 Code. As new laws have been passed since 1950, the Code is revised to incorporate the revisions. (The state is planning for another revision of the code, authorized by the General Assembly in 2006.)
Previous "Codes of Virginia" date to 1942, 1919, 1887, 1973, 1860, 1849, and 1819.1
Links
References
1 posting by Richard E. Dixon on VA-HIST listserver at Library of Virginia, January 13, 2009, http://listlva.lib.va.us/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0901&L=VA-HIST&T=0&O=D&P=16597
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