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William Hening was born in 1767 in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, United States.
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The Statues at Large, Vol. 10: Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia, From the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619; Published ... on the Fifth Day of February One Thousand
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The Statutes at Large, Vol. 6: Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia, From the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Statutes at Large, Vol. 6: Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia, From the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619 In the succeeding volumes there will be no omission of any private or local act, the editor having in his possession every act of Assembly and ordinance of convention, from the year 1752. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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The New Virginia Justice, Comprising the Office and Authority of a Justice of the Peace, in the Commonwealth of Virginia - Primary Source Edition
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The Statutes at Large, Vol. 9: Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia, From the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619; Published ... on the Fifth Day of February, One Thousand
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The Statutes at Large, Vol. 1: Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia, From the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Statutes at Large, Vol. 1: Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia, From the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619 F see pa. 123, 144, 149, 240, 277 3 See ea. H See pa. I See pa. 433. B See pa 532. I See pa.' 533. M See act XXXII! Of March, 1642 1, pa 260. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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William Waller Hening
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At an early age William Hening began the practice of law at the Fredericksburg bar, his patience, learning, and vigor of mind soon raising him to a position of local prominence.
About 1791/1792 he removed to Albemarle County, where he built up a successful practice, dealt less happily in real estate, and acquired a distillery with which his name was long associated. In 1804 and 1805 he represented Albemarle in the legislature, and while in this capacity was elected to the Privy Council. Several years later he was appointed clerk of the chancery court for the Richmond district, and retained this office until his death.
Hening did little creative writing, but, despite professional duties that were exacting as well as heavy, worked tirelessly at legal compilations which were contemporaneously important and have proved often invaluable historically. His first book was The New Virginia Justice (1795 ), a handbook of procedure for magistrates, which was both serviceable and popular, was indorsed and distributed by the state, and went through four, perhaps five, editions. In 1808 he drew up a pamphlet of the militia laws of Virginia, and the same year, with William Munford, issued the first of four volumes of Virginia court of appeals reports (1808 - 1811). He published The American Pleader and Lawyer's Guide (1811); edited a collection of the legal maxims of Noy, Branch, and Francis, Maxims of Law and Equity (1824); and assisted Benjamin Watkins Leigh in preparing his Revised Code of the Laws of Virginia (2 vols. , 1819).
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William Hening is famous through his thirteen volumes of The Statutes at Large; Being a Collection of all the Laws of Virginia (1809 - 1823), published under enactment of the legislature, which comprise the laws of Virginia from the first session of the colonial Assembly in 1619 down to 1792, together with the mass of official papers necessary to a complete understanding of the legislation and the political history of the state.
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The Statutes at Large; Being a Collection of all the Laws of Virginia from the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619. Volumes 1-13
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The New Virginia Justice, Comprising the Office and Authority of a Justice of the Peace, in the Commonwealth of Virginia - Primary Source Edition
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The Statutes at Large, Vol. 6: Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia, From the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619 (Classic Reprint)
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The Statutes at Large, Vol. 9: Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia, From the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619; Published ... on the Fifth Day of February, One Thousand
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The Statutes at Large, Vol. 1: Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia, From the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619 (Classic Reprint)
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The Statues at Large, Vol. 10: Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia, From the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619; Published ... on the Fifth Day of February One Thousand
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The Statutes at Large; Being a Collection of all the Laws of Virginia from the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619. Volumes 1-13
Connections
William Hening was married to Agatha, daughter of Gerard Banks of Stafford County. They had at least seven children: Anna Matilda Banks, William Henry, Martha Bruce, Virginia, Eliza Lewis, Edmund Waller, and Maria Waller.
