{"product_id":"statute-law-in-colonial-virginia-warren-m-billings-9780813945644","title":"Statute Law in Colonial Virginia: Governors, Assemblymen, and the Revisals That Forged the Old Dominion","description":"\u003cp\u003eBetween 1632 and 1748, Virginia's General Assembly revised the colony's statutes seven times. These revisals provide an invaluable opportunity to gauge how governors, councilors, and burgesses created a hybrid body of colonial statute law that would become the longest strand in the American legal fabric. In \u003ci\u003eStatute Law in Colonial Virginia\u003c\/i\u003e, Warren Billings presents a series of snapshots that depict the seven revisions of the corpus juris the General Assembly undertook. In so doing, he highlights the good, the corrupt, and the loathsome applications of broad legislative authority throughout the colonial era. Each revision was built on prior written law and embodies the members' legal knowledge and statutory craftsmanship, revealing their use of an unbridled discretion to further the interests they represented. Statutes undergirded Virginia's evolving legal culture, and by examining these revisals and their links, Billings casts light on the hybrid nature of Virginia statute law and its relation to English laws.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Warren M. Billings\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 081394564X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813945644\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/22\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 7.60w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2022","brand":"Warren M. Billings","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43990959718655,"sku":"9780813945644","price":39.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_28351363-8a6f-4a05-affc-407c8aae37e7.jpg?v=1683307644","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/statute-law-in-colonial-virginia-warren-m-billings-9780813945644","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}