DAMAGES means money paid to compensate for the injury or DAMAGE done to any person or person's property.
UNLAWFUL ENTRY is entering unlawfully upon lands belonging to another, and UNLAWFUL DETAINER means unlawful detaining or holding possession of lands or houses belonging to another.
DETINUE is an action in law in which a person seeks to get back property of his which is unlawfully held or DETAINED by another. In such cases the justice may issue a warrant for SEARCH for the property detained.
A WARRANT is a document or paper issued by a judge giving power or authority to a policeman, or other officer of the law, to arrest a criminal, or an offender, in order to have him brought to trial. A warrant issued authorizing an officer to search for property stolen or detained, is called a SEARCH WARRANT. BAIL is security given for the release of a person from prison. When a person is arrested and charged with a crime he may, if the crime be not a very serious one, be let out of prison and left at liberty until trial, if some one will give security or pledge for him that he will appear in court on the day appointed for the trial. If the amount required is small, the security is usually given in the shape of money, but if the amount is large, it is given in the shape of a bond called a BAIL-BOND.
The person giving the bail-bond must be one who owns real estate to the value of the amount of bail, and if the person to be tried does not appear for trial at the time appointed, the person who gives the bond may be required to pay the amount into court.
CONCURRENT jurisdiction is the same or equal jurisdiction. REVENUE is the income or money which the State or corporation receives in the shape of taxes. TAXES are the moneys collected by the State or by towns or cities for defraying the expenses of government. The owners of certain kinds of property have to pay taxes in proportion to the value of their property.
VIOLATION OF THE REVENUE LAWS is a violation of any of the laws made for the levying and collection of taxes. There is a tax upon the selling of certain articles, such as liquors and tobacco, and if a person sells such articles without paying the tax, it is a violation of the revenue laws.
A CODE is a collection of the laws of the State or country. The
Code of Virginia is a book containing the statute laws of
Virginia. A MISDEMEANOR is any crime less than a felony. (For
FELONY, see page 13.)
Hustings Court of the City of Richmond.
Judge elected by the General Assembly for a term of eight years.
Salary, $3,500.