A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 2 of 3

by George Elliott Howard

[1233] They are called "commissioners" in the act of 1830: Acts (1830-31), 103.

[1234] Acts of the Gen. Assem. of Va. (1794), 331.

[1235] So to Ohio and Brooke counties in 1796: Acts of the Gen. Assem. (1803), 371; and to Bath county in 1830: Acts (1830-31), 103.

[1236] Act of Dec. 20, 1830: Acts (1830-31), 103. Compare Revised Code (1819), I, 393-403; and Tate, Digest (1823), 417, where the provisions of 1794 and 1792 as to lay commissioners and bond are retained and made general.

[1237] Code of Va. (1887), 555. Cf. Code of Va. (2d ed., 1860), 524, where this provision appears in the same terms.

[1238] Laws of 1784 and 1792 as amended at the revision of 1819: Revised Code (1819), I, 396; Tate, Digest, 416.

[1239] Act of Feb. 13, 1812, chap. 25: Tate, Digest, 416.

[1240] Act of Feb. 16, 1831: Acts (1830-31), 102; also in Supplement to Revised Code (1833), 221.

[1241] Code of Va. (1878), 555.

[1242] Acts of the Legislature of W. Va. (1868), 29.