Judicial

1871/1872
An ACT Providing for Furnishing to the Colleges of the State, in which Law Schools are Established, Surplus Law Publications.
An ACT to Extend the Time for L. R. Edwards to Qualify as Clerk of the Courts of Southampton County.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact an Act approved March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, in Relation to the Rule days for County and Corporation Courts; and Declaring when Office Judgments shall be final.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the 3d Section of Chapter 48, of the Code of 1860, in Relation to the Compensation of Justices of the Peace.
An Act to Amend and Re-enact an Act approved 9th of July, 1870, entitled An Act to Amend and Re-enact Section 23 of Chapter 49 of the Code of 1860, to Provide for the Appointment of Criers or Persons to Perform Certain Duties where there are no Sheriffs or Sergeants
An ACT to Authorize Deputy Clerks to take Acknowledgments of Deeds by Married Women in certain cases.
An ACT to Amend Section 5 of Chapter 161 of the Code of Virginia (edition of 1860) in Relation to Records at Large of Courts.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact an Act Prescribing the Duties and Compensation of Vertain Township Officers, Approved July 11th, 1870, and Acts Amendatory Thereof.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Sections 2, 4, 6, 7, 8 and 21 of an Act entitled ‘An Act to Amend and Ke-enact the Charter of the Town of Danville, and Incorporating into One all Acts Amendatory thereof,” passed 15th December, 1805.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section Two of an Act entitled "An Act to Amend tho Charter of the Town of Winchester, in the County of Froderick"
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Sections § and 10 of Chapter 162 of the Code of 1860, as Amended by the Act of February 3rd, 1871, in Relation to Juries in Civil Causes.
An ACT to Allow Further Time to Jackson Godby, Clerk of Floyd County Court, to give Bond and qualify as said Clerk.
An ACT to Amend the Sixth and Ninth Sections of Chapter 204 of the Acts of 1866-7, Relative to Arrest, Commitment and Bail.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 10, Chapter 208 of the Code of 1860, in Relation to Jurors in Criminal Cases.
An ACT to provide a special Court of Appeals.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact an Act entitled an Act to Prescribe the Times for the Holding of the Terms of the Circuit Courts of the State
An ACT Giving the Consent of this State to the Purchase by the United States of a Tract of Land in the County of Fairfax, to be used for a Military Cemetery, and exempting the same from State, County or City Taxes.
An ACT to Amend Sections one, three, four, five, nine and eleven of an Act entitled An Act to Amend and Re-enact Chapter 206 of the Code of Virginia (edition of 1860) as to Grand Juries.
An ACT to Provide for a Re-division of the County of Rockingham into ‘Townships.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 10 of Chapter 1! of the Code of Virginia, (Edition of 1860), with Regard to Pay of Clerks of Court of Appeals and of the Circuit Court of Richmond. as Amended by Chapter 359, Acts 1869-70, Approved October 31st, 1870.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 24 of Chapter 42 of the Code of 1860, in Relation to the Auditor's Powers as to Claims in Favor of the Commonwealth.
An ACT for the Relief of Thomas Davis, an Infant of Greene County.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 16 of Chapter 151 of the Code of 1860, with reference to Sales under Attachments.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 4, of an Act approved July lith, 1870, relating to Fiduciaries, so as to Fix the Fees of Commissioners of Account.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 46, Chapter 85, of the Code of 1860, as Amended by Act of January 16th, 1866, in Relation to the Number of Guards for a Lunatic while being Conveyed to the Asylums.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 17, Chapter 157, Cod2 of 1860, in Reference to the Jurisdiction of County Courts.
An ACT to Amend and Re.enact an Act entitled an Act to Prescribe the Times for the Holding of the Terms of the Circuit Courts of the State
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the Third Section, Chapter 209, Code 1860, as Re-enacted by the Act passed 27th April, 1867, entitled an Act to Revise and Amend the Criminal Procedure, and as further Amended by the Act approved January 14, 1871.
JOINT RESOLUTION relative to the Official Terms of certain Officers of the Government, and the Time within which they may Qualify.
An ACT for the Relief of the Sureties of Benjamin Robinson, late Sheriff of Greene County.
An ACT to Authorize the Qualified Voters of the County of Prince William to Vote on the Question of Removing the County Court-house to Manassas.
An ACT to Repeal Section 1, and Amend and Re-enact Section 2, of Chapter 174, of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the Removal of Causes.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 9, Chapter 179 of the Code, in Reference to Injunctions
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Sections 7 and 9 of Chapter 215 of the Code of 1860, in Relation to Proceedings in Criminal Cases
An ACT Prescribing the Duties and Compensation of County fiicers.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 39, Chapter 184, of Code of 1860, as Amended, concerning Allowance of certain Officers.
An Act to Amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to Amend the Provisions of the Code in regard to the Supreme Court of Appeals, so as to make them Conform to the New Constitution, approved June 23d, 1870, and for the Purpose of Hearing Causes at Winchester.
An ACT to Simplify Declarations in Actions against Insurance Companies
An ACT to Incorporate the Inebriate’s Home.
An ACT to Authorize the Bourd of Supervisors of Norfolk and Henrico Counties to Increase the Salaries of the Judges of Said Counties.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 15, Chapter 187, of the Code of Virginia (edition of 1860) in Relation to Writs of Fieri Facias.
An Act to Allow Further Time to J. Douglass Thornton, Clerk of the Courts of Sussex County, to give Bond and Qualify as said Clerk.

1872/1873
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 13, Chapter 127, of the Code of Virginia (edition of 1860), and to Extend the Powers of Circuit Courts in relation to the Estates of Infants.
An ACT to Provide Compensation to the Sheriff of the City of Richmond for Attending the Special Court of Appeals, the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond, and the Chancery Court of the City of Richmond.
An ACT to Amend Section 86 of the Act of 19th March, 1872, in Relation to Vacancies in Office.
An ACT to Repeal an Act to Amend and Re-enact Sections 6, 8, 14 and 15, and to Repeal Sections 7, 16, 17 and 18 of Chapter 150 of the Code of Virginia, Edition of 1860, Concerning Warrants for small Claims
An ACT to Prevent the Seduction of Females, and Amending and Re-enacting the 16th Section of Chapter 191, in reference to the Abduction of Females.
Joint Resolutions Proposing Amendments to Sections one, two, three and four of the seventh Article of the Constitution of this Commonwealth in Relation to County Organization, for Publishing said Amendments and Certifying the same to the next General Assembly.
An ACT to Provide for the Removal of Certain Causes from the Docket of the Special Court of Appeals to the Docket of the Supreme Court of Appeals.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 12, Chapter 170 of the Code, as Amended by the Act passed January 8th, 1867, in relation to the Time when a Case may be Tried after Order of Publication.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the first Section of an Act approved April 2nd, 1870, to District the State for County Judges
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 3, Chapter 48, Code of 1860, as Amended by an Act approved March 18th, 1872, in Relation to the Compensation of Justices of the Peace.
JOINT RESOLUTION Directing the Superintendent of Public Printing to Print Two Thousand Copies of the Act to Regulate and Define the Jurisdiction of the Circuit and County Courts, the Act Relating to Certain Bonds and Recognizances and the Act in Reference to Criminal Prosecutions in certain Cases, &c.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 41 of an Act entitled an Act Prescribing the Duties and Compensation of County Officers
JOINT RESOLUTION Declaring Elections of Judges to fill Vacancies to be for the Unexpired Terms of their predecessors.
An ACT Authorizing the Board of Supervisors of Elizabeth City County to Borrow Money to Rebuild the Court-house of said County, Destroyed by Fire during the late War.
An ACT to allow Judges of Certain Corporation or Hastings Courts to Practice Law
An ACT to Repeal the Act entitled an Act to Amend and Re-enact Section 12 of Chapter 34 of Code of 1860, in relation to certain Debts due the Virginia Military Institute, approved March 4th, 1871, and to Re enact the said Section of the said Chapter of the Code.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section twenty-four of the Act approved May eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy, entitled an Act to Provide for a General Election.
An ACT to Provide for the Removal of certain Criminal Causes from the County Court to the Circuit Court.
An ACT to Regulate and Define the Jurisdiction of the County and Circuit Courts, to Prescribe the Number of Terms of the Circuit Courts, and to fix the Pay of County Judges
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Sections three, four, and six of chapter one hundred and forty-four of the Code of Virginia (1860,) with reference to the Protest of Notes.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the 1st and 2nd Section: of the 169th Chapter of the Code of 1860, as Amended by the 12tk Chapter of the Acts of 1803-’4, and by the 18th Chapter of the Acts of 1864-’5, Prescribing the Courts in which Legal Proceedings are Commenced.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the Charter of the Town of Salem, in the County of Roanoke.
An Act to Amend and Re-enact Sections Five and Seven of an Act to Regulate and Define the Jurisdiction of the County and Circuit Courts, to Prescribe the Number of Terms of the Circuit Court, and to Fix the Pay of County Judges.
An ACT Declaring and Prescribing what Fees a Justice of the Peace may Charge for Services Connected with the Trial of Warrants for Small Claims.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 3 of an Act passed March 3, 1866, providing for Adjustment of Liabilities arising under Contracts and Wills made between 1st day of January, 1862, and the 10th day of April, 1865.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section five of Chapter one hundred and ninety-two, of the Code of 1860, in Relation to Offences against Property, so as to Punish more Rigorously in certain cases the Crime of Arson.
AN ACT to Amend and Re-enact the twelfth section of chapter one hundred and eighty-two of the Code of eighteen hundred and sixty, in relation to Appeals, Writs of Error, and Supersedeas
An ACT to Provide a New Charter for the City of Portsmouth.
An ACT for the Relief of Ann Sipe, of Lickinghole Township, in Goochland County.
AN ACT for the Relief of the Sureties of John Thompson, late Sheriff of Tazewell County.
An ACT to Remove certain Causes commenced in the County Courts to the Circuit Courts, and for other Purposes
An ACT for the Relief of the Sureties of William M. Hume, deceased, late Sheriff of Fauquier County.
An ACT in Relation to the Records of Alexandria County.
An ACT Providing for the pay of City and Corporation Judges.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact an Act entitled ‘‘ An Act to Amend and Re-enact an Act Approved ninth of July, eighteen hundred and seventy, entitled ‘An Act to Amend and Re-enact Section twenty-three of Chapter forty-nine of the Code of Virginia of eighteen hundred and sixty, to Provide for the Appointment of Criers, or Persons to Perform Certain Duties, where there are no Sheriffs or Sergeants, approved March twenty-three, eighteen hundred and seventy-two.”
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact an Act entitled an Act Providing for the Re-assessment of Lands in the Commonwealth, Passed February 1, 1872, so as to Enable those Counties in the State which Failed to Avail themselves of the Provisions of said Act to do so.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the 7th Section of the 170th Chapter of the Code of 1860 in relation to the Service of Process or Notice to a Corporation.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section seventeenth, Chapter one hundred and fifty-one of the Code, in Relation to Proceeding where there is a Garnishee
An ACT to Authorize and Empower the Councils of the Cities of Richmond, Petersburg and Norfolk to Increase the Salaries of the Judges of said Cities.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Sections sixty-three and seventy-seven of an Act entitled An Act to Amend and Re-enact an Act Prescribing the Duties and Compensation of Certain Township Officers
An ACT in Reference to Certain Bonds and Recognizances.
An ACT to Declare Banister River, in the County of Pittsyl-
An ACT for the Relief of Samuel R. Allabaugh, late sheriff of Rockingham county.
An ACT for the Relief of G. Guvernator, C. Wendlinger and E. Lohman, Securities of Fernando King, Late Sheriff of Surry County.
An ACT to Authorize the Second Auditor to Issue Duplicates of certain Warrants on the Treasury Lost or Destroyed before Payment.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section fourteen of Chapter one hundred and seventy-seven of the Code of eighteen hundred and sixty in Relation to Interest.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 5 of Chapter 176 of the Code of 1860, in Relation to copies of Records and Papers in Public Offices as Evidence.
An ACT to Authorize the Sureties of James S. Barksdale, as late Sheriff of Albemarle, to Discharge the Judgment against them in Favor of the Commonwealth with the Bonds of the Commonwealth.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section Four of Chapter One Hundred and Eighty-six of the Code of 1860, in Relation to Docketing Judgments and other Liens of a like nature.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the Act approved March 21st, 1872, to Fix the Times for Holding the Circuit Courts of the State.
An ACT to Preserve all Rights and Remedies Imperilled or Destroyed by the Loss or Destruction, during the Late War, of Papers Filed in the Various Public Offices of the Commonwealth.
An ACT for the Relief of John W. Myers, of Highland County.
An ACT to Authorize Decrees in Chancery Causes to be Entered, by Consent of Parties, in Vacation, and to Validate Decrees heretofore rendered in Vacation.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section four of Chapter one hundred and sixty-nine of the Code of Virginia (edition of 1860) in Regard to Writs of Mandamus, Prohibition and Certiorari.
An ACT to Empower the Circuit Court of Wise County to Direct the Sale of certain Lands belonging to the State of Virginia, situated in said County of Wise, and Providing for the Conveyance of the same to the Purchasers thereof, and for other purposes.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact an Act entitled an Act to Amend and Re-enact the 11th Section of Chapter 188 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to Debtor's Estate.
An Act to Amend and Re-enact Section eight, Chapter one hundred and eighty-six of the Code of Virginia, as Amended and Re-enacted by Chapter one hundred and seventy-five of the Session Acts
An ACT to Amend Sections 46 and 52, Chapter 87, Code of 1860, as Amended by an Act passed April 20th, 1867, entitled an Act to Amend Certain Sections of Chapter 87, Code of 1860, and in Relation to the Inspection of Tobacco, and the 3d Section of said Act passed as aforesaid.