The lawes of Virginia now in force collected out of the assembly records and digested into one volume : revised and confirmed by the Grand Assembly held at James-City by prorogation the 23d of March 1661 in the 13th year of the reign of our soveraign lord King Charles the II.
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The lawes of Virginia now in force collected out of the assembly records and digested into one volume : revised and confirmed by the Grand Assembly held at James-City by prorogation the 23d of March 1661 in the 13th year of the reign of our soveraign lord King Charles the II.
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1662.
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"The lawes of Virginia now in force collected out of the assembly records and digested into one volume : revised and confirmed by the Grand Assembly held at James-City by prorogation the 23d of March 1661 in the 13th year of the reign of our soveraign lord King Charles the II." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A89344.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024.
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XXVIII. Subpaena's to be Issued by the Clerk.
BE it also Enacted, That the Clerk of the General-Court shall issue Subpaena's from the Secretaries Office, for all Evidences required in the tryal of any Cause there depending, if the Witnes∣ses required do not dwell beyond the Bay, or the North-side of James-River: And if they do, that then a Dedimus Potestatem shall issue for taking the Deposition in the County, or Counties, where the Witnesses do dwell. Provided alwayes, That in Criminal-Causes all Witnesses be bound over to give in their Evidences vivâ voce, at the tryal in the General-Court.
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