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1869/1870
An ACT to re-enact and amend Section Seven of Chapter
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section Thirteen, Chapter One Hundred and Eighty-Five of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT Providing for the Payment of One Thousand Dollars to James Lyons for Professional Services.
An ACT to authorize the Payment of a Claim to John Wickham.
An ACT to Incorporate the Virginia Law Society
JOINT RESOLUTION Requiring the State Librarian to Mark and Place in the Attorney-General’s Office, a Volume of each of the Virginia Reports, ‘&c.
1870/1871
An ACT to Amend Section 9 of Chapter 184 of the Code, in Relation to the Fees of Commissioners in Chancery.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the Act passed February 21, 1867, entitled an Act Authorizing a Practicing Lawyer of the State of Virginia to decide causes, or preside at the trial thereof, under certain circumstances.
1872/1873
An ACT to allow Judges of Certain Corporation or Hastings Courts to Practice Law
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.
1874
An Act to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 160 of the Code of 1878, in relation to granting licenses to practice law.
1874/1875
An ACT to Regulate the Allowance by Courts of Fees to Counsel out of Property or Moneys under control of the Cvurt.
1876/1877
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act incorporating the town of Tappahannock, in Essex county, and appointing trustees for the same, and for other purposes
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 11 and 12 of chapter 128 of the Code of Virginia, 1873, providing for recordation of fiduciary accounts.
An ACT in regard to the duties and salary of the attorney-general
1881/1882
An ACT to fix the times for holding the terms of the circuit court of Bedford county.
An ACT authorizing the county judge of Isle of Wight to make an allowance for George M. Waddill.
1882es
An ACT to prevent Attorneys-at-Law, who fail to pay over moneys and valuables received by them, within a given time, from practicing in the courts of the commonwealth.
1866/1867
An ACT to amend and re-enact the 1st section of chapter 164 of the Code of 1860, and the act amendatory thereof, passed 14th January, 1864, in relation to granting Licenses to Attorneys at Law; and to render Valid all Licenses signed by any Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia since the 14th January, 1864.
An ACT authorizing a Practising Lawyer of the State of Virginia to decide causes, or preside at the trial thereof, under certain circumstances.
1883/1884
An ACT for the relief of William M. Tredway
1885/1886
An ACT to provide payment to E. C. Burks for services rendered the commonwealth, as counsel in behalf of the state, in the case of Thos. Branch & Co. against the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund.
An ACT to incorporate the Bar Association of the city of Richmond.
An ACT to provide compensation to John M. Forbes and M. Boswell Seawell, for certain professional services rendered by them, respectively, in behalf of the commonwealth.
An ACT to define and punish barratry.
An ACT to provide compensation to A. H. Garland and Martin F. Morris, the representatives of Richard T. Merrick, deceased, for services rendered by Garland and Merrick, as counsel in behalf of the state of Virginia, in the cases of Poindexter versus Grrenhow, &c.
1889/1890 Public Laws
An ACT to amend section 3501 and 3502 of the code of Virginia of 1887, as to fees of commissioners in chancery.
1891/1892
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8191 of the code of Virginia, relating to attorneys at law generally.
An ACT to authorize the judge of Buchanan county to fill a vacancy in the office of commonwealth’s attorney
1893/1894
An ACT for the relief of E. P. Buford, of Brunswick county.
An ACT to pay John Scott, late commonwealth’s attorney of Fauquier, for services rendered in debt litigation in the United States circuit court.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3199 of the code of Virginia, in relation to certain officers forbidden to practice law in particular courts.
An ACT to amend sections 3501 and 3502 of the code of Virginia, as amended by chapter 57 of the acts of the general assembly of 1889-’90, entitled an act to amend sections 3501 and 3502 of the code of Virginia, as to fees of commissioners in chancery.
AN ACT allowing fee to A. M. Dickinson in Carrico case.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 250 of the code of Virginia, providing for donations to universities and colleges having law schools.
1897/1898
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia state bar association, approved February 28, 1890.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3192 of the code in reference to Who may practice law in this state.
1899/1900
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3838 of the code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 5, 1890, in relation to attorney fees.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3192 of the code
An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk and Portsmouth bar association.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3195 and 3196 of the code of Virginia, and to repeal section 3197 of same code, in reference to disbarring attorneys at law.
An ACT to enable William M. Crumpler, of Nansemond county, Virginia, to practice law, upon due examination by the court of appeals.
1895/1896
JOINT RESOLUTION for the relief of James G. Field
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3528 of the code of Virginia, and to repeal section 3526 of the code of Virginia, in relation to fees of attorneys for the commonwealth.
An ACT to amend section 2486 of chapter 18, code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 19, 1894, in relation to the secretary of the commonwealth furnishing reports of the decisions of the court of appeals.
An ACT to permit Thos. Gant Alderson to obtain license to practice law in the courts of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3191 of the code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 2, 1892, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3191 of the code of Virginia, relating to the licensing of persons to practice law in this state.
An Act to amend sections 3501 and 3502 of code of Virginia in relation to fees of commissioners in chancery.
1901/1902
An ACT to permit Charles Lockey Collier, a person under the age of 21 years, to appear before the judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia and take the required examination for a license to practice law.
An ACT to permit Orren Lyne Shackleford, of Warsaw, to appear before the Court of Appeals of Virginia and take the required examination for a license to practice law.
An ACT to permit Charles H. Gurney, Jr., a person under the age of 21 years, to obtain a license to practice law in the courts of the State of Virginia,
An ACT authorizing J. F. Alley to practice law in the courts of the Commonwealth.
An ACT to enable Eldridge M. Gathright, of Louisa county, Virginia, to stand an examination by the Court of Appeals for a license to practice law.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3199 of Code of Virginia, as amended by act approved February 23, 1894.
An ACT to enable Aubrey G. Weaver, of Warren county, Virgima to appear before the judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals and take the required examination for a license to practice law.
An ACT to refund to Mary A. Yancey, administratrix of W. L. Yancey, deceased, of Harrisonburg, a certain license tax paid by said W. L. Yancey in his lifetime as an attorney at law.
1901es
An ACT to incorporate the bar association of the city of Richmond.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3191 of the code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 2, 1892, and by an act approved January 11, 1896, relating to the licensing of persons to practice law in this state.
An ACT permitting Harold S. Bloomberg, of Richmond, to appear before the judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals, and take the required examination for a license to practice law.
An ACT for the relief of Lewis C. Williams, a native of Virginia, authorizing the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia to grant him a certificate to practice law under certain conditions.
1902/1904
An ACT amending section 819 of Code in relation to the residence of county, district, and corporation officers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3196 of chapter 154 of the Code, as amended by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact sections 3195 and 3196 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal section 3197 of same Code, in reference to disbarring attorneys at law.”
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3116, 3117, 3120, 3122, as amended by act approved February 29, 1892, and as further amended by act approved February 12, 1894, 3129, 3130, 3131, 3132, 3134, and 3135 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal an act entitled “an act to prescribe what judges may practice law,” approved March 2, 1888, and to repeal section 3109 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to permit persons more than nineteen years of age to take the State bar examination for a license to practice law.
1904
An ACT prescribing and defining the right to an attorney’s lien in certain cases.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3129 of the Code of Virginia,
1908
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3528 of the Code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled: An act to amend and re-enact section 3528 of the Code of Virginia and to repeal section 3526 of the Code of Virginia in relation to fees of attorneys for the Commonwealth
1910
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3191, chapter 154, of the Code, as amended by an act in force on and after February 2, 1892, and by an act in force on and after July 1, 1896, relating to how a person is licensed to practice law in the State of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3370 of the Code of Virginia.
1912
An ACT to prescribe in what cases a justice of the peace shall not have jurisdiction in a suit or warrant.
1914
An ACT to provide for the payment of compensation to the counsel employed on behalf of the State by the governor and attorney general to prosecute Floyd Allen and others, charged with the murder of the judge of the circuit court of Carroll county, Virginia, and of certain officers and a juror in attendance upon said court, on the 14th day of March 1912, and for the payment of compensation to counsel employed by the judge presiding at the trials to defend certain of the prisoners unable to employ counsel.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3191, chapter 154, of the Code, as amended by an act in force on and after February 2, 1892, and by an act in force on and after July 1, 1896, and by an act approved March 14, 1910, relating to how a person is licensed to practice law in the State of Virginia.
1916
An ACT for the relief of J. P. K. Walling, of Scott county, Virginia.
An ACT permitting the creation of the office of public defender in cities having a population of fifty thousand, or more, and providing for their appointment and defining their powers and duties.
An ACT to provide for payment of compensation to counsel employed by the judge presiding at the trial to defend Luther Canter and James Canter, in the circuit court of Washington county, charged with having raped and murdered Maude Wilson, who were unable to employ counsel.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3528 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 12, 1908, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3528 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal section 3526 of the Code of Virginia in relation to fees of attorneys for the Commonwealth.
1918
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3194 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended in relation to the practice of law without a license.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3191 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 13, 1914, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3191, chapter 154, of the Code, as amended by an act in force on and after February 2, 1892, and by an act in force on and after July 1, 1806, and by an act approved March 14, 1910, relating to how a person is licensed to practice law in the State of Virginia.
1920
An ACT to extend the time within which a person to whom license had been issued prior to March 14, 1918, to practice law in Virgniia, but who had been prevented from qualifying and commencing said practice within two years after the granting of said license by his entry into the military or naval service of the United States may qualify and commence said practice without further examination.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3408 of the Code of Virginia, prescribing who may practice law in this State.
An ACT to provide for furnishing the secretary and treasurer of the board of bar examiners, the State tax board, its counsel and executive
1922
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3408 to 3422, both inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, section 3408 of which was amended by an act approved February 21, 1920, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3191 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5205 of the Code of Virginia.
1924
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 17 and 18 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Pocahontas, in the county of Tazewell, and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith, approved March 13, 1918, and to add to the said charter as a part thereof a section to be known as section 39-a on the subject of a town attorney.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4148 of the Code of Virginia as amended by an act approved March 20, 1920.
An ACT relating to the practice of law, and preventing persons, firms and corporations, not practicing attorneys, from appearing before any magistrate, civil or police justice, civil justice court, or any other court, to represent any claim or cause of any person, firm or corporation, unless the person, firm or corporation has a property interest in said claim or cause; preventing evasions of this act and crexeribing penalties.
1926
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3505 of the Code of Virginia, relating to fees of the attorneys for the Commonwealth, as amended by acts approved March 20, 1922, and March 21, 1924.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 298 of the Code of Virginia in relation to continuance of right in court proceedings when a member or officer of the general assembly is counsel.
1928
An ACT providing for the service on any party to a pending
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3418 and 3424 of the Code of Virginia, section 3418 of which as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3505 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to fees for attorneys for the Commonwealth.
1930
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5812 of the Code of Virginia, relating to new promise; how plaintiff to sue.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5438 of the Code of Virginia, providing when fiduciaries are protected by refunding bonds.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section thirty-four hundred and eighteen of the Code of Virginia of 1919, as amended by an act approved March 26, 1928, and section thirty-four hundred and nineteen of the Code of Virginia of 1919, as amended by an act approved March 24, 1922, in regard to license to practice law.
1932
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3424 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to attorneys-at-law.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 26 of chapter 473 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1924, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Roanoke and to repeal the existing charter of said city and the several acts amendatory thereof, and all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act, so far as they relate to the city of Roanoke, approved March 22, 1924.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3098 of the Code of Virginia in relation to qualifications of civil and police justices.
1934
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to chapter 133 thereof a new section numbered 3424-a, providing in what courts disbarment and suspension proceedings against attorneys at law may be had and how services may be had.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to chapter 124 thereof a new section numbered 3120-a prohibiting special justices, who are judges or justices of any civil court, civil and police court or police court in certain cities from practicing law.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3413 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the Board of Law Examiners and qualifications and examination of applicants for membership to the bar.