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		<title>Warwick County records returned after 150 years&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 15:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWPORT NEWS (AP) Nobody knows exactly how many deeds, wills and other legal records might have been stored in the old Warwick County courthouse when the Civil War started. But by the time the conflict ended in 1865, the single most comprehensive source of information about one of English America’s oldest settlements had been reduced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Petersburg historic records put online&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2012 17:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PETERSBURG (AP) Nearly a quarter of a million historic court documents from Petersburg detailing early struggles in the rail and mining industries and with free African Americans are now available online. The Library of Virginia recently completed Petersburg’s chancery records digitization project, in which nearly 240,000 documents from the 1700s through the 20th century are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deed search puts Winchester lawyer on quest</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 13:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WINCHESTER (AP)  All Michael Bryan was looking for was a deed. What the local attorney eventually found was a bit of a mystery — one nearly 169 years in the making — with a possible solution that involves spirits. Bryan was seeking the deed for the property that housed the Winchester-Frederick County jail and Starting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An unbroken chain</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2012/04/16/an-unbroken-chain-northampton-county-has-the-longest-continuous-court-records-in-the-u-s/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Virginia Lawyers Weekly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As North and South clashed during the Civil War, court officials across Virginia sent their records to Richmond, hoping to keep them away from invading Union armies. “It seemed to be common practice that the invading army would go straight to the courthouse,” said Carl Childs, director of local records services with the Library of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quoits … the ‘old golf’&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 15:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Virginia Lawyers Weekly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How did lawyers socialize years ago? During the late 18th century in the Richmond area, U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall and his contemporaries partook in the social game of quoits. This traditional game of skill required tossing a brass or iron ring to a meg, the iron stake placed in the ground. Quoits resembled the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Danville segregation recalled at site of protest&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2011/04/14/danville-segregation-recalled-at-site-of-protest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Virginia bar leaders took a journey into the past this month through the eyes of two lawyers who witnessed history from two very different perspectives. Virginia State Bar president Irving M. Blank of Richmond and attorney Robert A. Williams of Martinsville both grew up during the 50’s and 60’s in segregated Danville. Blank is white. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legal History Nugget: Giles B. Jackson&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2011/02/25/legal-history-nugget-giles-b-jackson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor’s Note: As Black History month draws to a close, we provide a feature, on Giles B. Jackson, the first African-American to argue before the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals (now the Supreme Court of Virginia). For Giles B. Jackson, a man born into slavery in 1853, the future did not seem to hold much [...]]]></description>
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