Taliaferro & al. vs. Taliaferro & al. 1786, Oct. 30.

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Taliaferro & al. vs. Taliaferro & al. 1786, Oct. 30.

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Extracts of the papers of a lawsuit filed in the Virginia Court of Appeals by Mary Taliaferro, Harry Taliaferro, and Mildred Strother. The defendants were Lawrence Taliaferro (1734-1798), Hay Taliaferro (1740-1825), John Taliaferro (1745-1788), Francis Taliaferro (1743-1815), Richard Brooke (1732-1792), and William Taliaferro (1726-1798), all of Caroline, Essex, Orange, and Spotsylvania Counties, Virginia. The legal proceedings stemmed from a suit over the execution of the will of John Taliaferro (d. 1720) filed in the Spotsylvania County, Virginia, Court in July 1749. The case was decided in November 1786.

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The Supreme Court of Appeals was created by an act of the General Assembly passed during its May 1779 session. The new court's antecedent was the General Court, which after it was reestablished under the constitution of 1776, shared appellate jurisdiction while the supreme court was restricted to civil cases, but the state constitution adopted in 1851 abolished the General Court. The Supreme Court thus became the state's only court of final appeal both for civil and criminal cases. An act of the...

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