The recorder. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1802-1803, 1803-05-25

The REPI0ED CODE
LAWS OF VIRGINIA,
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PREFACE.
Wy an as OF the General Aicmbly Of Virginia,
! J dated December 18Th, I-e2. it was ordained,
that 4 collection ihouid be made OF all luch acts
cf the hHembiy, Of public and permanent ma
ture, as were then in force. For this pu-poe,
ieveral lawyers were ioltcited to iuPerinena the
compilation Mr.. Davis, then printer 10 the
commonwealth, did not get the work completed
TIL the Clote OF the year, 1894. l., therefore,
embraced Eli luch laws, of public ard pcrnla
nent nature, as were PaRed during the ief1on,
which commenced November nth, 1894.
II WAS unavoidablv 10 happen that this conec-
tion would almott Immediately become affective;
and that It's defects were 10 Increale annually. and
without inteyiniiiion. The new laws of the more
important cIas were, FOR tie noi part, occupied
IN Altering, or in repeating Tome Of their predccei-
{ors. Hence, il evident, that # man OF buii-
neis was regularly iupplied with the additional
laws the Rcvi.ed Code would 5e quite as likely
TO lead him into mifJakes, as to give him proper
information. The cunlegaance vas. that every
Practitioner of the law found II Hecrary 80 per
chaIe, annually, the large iohO pamphlet, contain
ING he laws Of each ucceedIn2 aiicE.bly. In The
couTie or mans life, thele publications ould
have ~ cled into library; and, what was ex-
rrernely inconvenisnt, by far the create part of
them were laws Of local ard private nature,
which totsily ute.sis, and nlele nconlbrance
to Ihc practitioner IN a court
Thu. Revifed Code, wph all lis augmenting i'm
perfeGlouS, had become extremely carce. The
original price cighE dollars But il was al
13oit Impol.ble to obtain the book at any price
whatever. ] he confaat demand for he Keviied
Co@e induced The proprieto-s OF he preienJ work
90 publih oFot4l5 io fecond, ard improved
edition. which bTing down The collection
70 late as 10 1ne end OF the le on OF December
2S0,. In the former edition, therefore the latst
act OF AlernbIy Bears dare 26th CT December,
1904. In the prelent edition, the lateit Gatu,e
paned upon February I'd, 1902. This make. 4
difference of more than ievcn years; and theie
feven years appear to have been diHngallheG be-
yond every former period OF the hitory OF the
commonwealth, by the multitude and importance
oflhe laws hich in that time we're pafcd. To
give complete idea of this fact, We nave oaiy to
obierVc that the edition of NJr Davis, contained 9n
tent contains THREE HUNDRED AND
THIRTEEN. o. theie one hu dred and thirty
two additional fautes, one hundred and twenty
FIX were pahed within thoie isven years, They
compoie, therefore, in point Of number, more than
two aiths Of the whole collection. The other tx
laws, which make up she total additional number
ofone hundred and thirty two, had been paGed
long before the publication of the former COTTON
Of g The Reyiicd Code" Some of them are of
very comfortable length They were {eiected
and inherited by the ipeciai advice and deiirc OF
Governor Monroe. He was one of the gentlemen
who had tecn appointed 80 reviie chs former edi-
tlon and It his opinion that thele fix acts of
ahembly had beenimPToPerly emitted.
Executive OF the index, the title page and pre-
face, the pretent volume contains four hundred and
fifty four pages. Of thele, the additional laws
6il an hundred and twenty four pages, which is
nos muchiei5 than fhird part Of the whole text
It's not necentry to fay how much more cove
nient this conciie and peIfpicuou5 arrangement
muH be, shan 10 have the trouble of wandering
through even iobo PaWphicts in qvet Of a faluye.
heie Details without any comment Of ours,
abundsnty prove. had indeed, other evidence
been wanting, the propriety and ueceflity for a
fecord eJltiou Of this hook. Ii IS now alfo con
dened iuto a much more manageable fze than Is
formerly aGumcd No gen.ie1an's poke; can,
1t lett, IN he preieot age, contain folio volume;
an" NuCh lSIS WoGia Il contain the enormous az
perdage Ct ieven folo pamphlets In riding ten,
or hf'ecn tDlies 20 q Country court hOue, gen
t;Snan c'..y not al ways think il worth whie 20
take a Pcr,uartIa along ~ith him; nornjeed
Is rvery portmantuz large enough to contain iUch
MATES Of P'irt and paper Upon tnis account,
tae prcisnt edition las been reduced to an o2avo
}ile, AND printed ololeiy as Poai5e. Hence, a
lawyer, when he tets orl for the County court
houe, VIII no jonses Be obliged 10 leave his eight