Abstract of the Proceedings of the Virginia Company of London, 1619-1624: Papers from the records in the Library of Congress

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Author: Robinson, Conway (1805-1884) Year: 1888 Publisher: Virginia Historical Society Place: Richmond Description: 2 volumes: xivii+218 pages; 300 pages with index. Royal octavo (10" x 6 1/2") issued in black cloth with spine labels. Edited with an introduction and notes by R A Brock. Volumes VII and VIII, New Series of The Virginia Historical Society . First edition. Conway Robinson was born in Richmond on September 15, 1805, son of John and Agnes Conway (Moncure) Robinson. After a six-year apprenticeship to the clerk of two of Richmond's courts, he was admitted to the bar in 1827; he became clerk of the General Court the following year and held the post until his resignation in 1931 to engage in private practice. He ventured briefly into business, assuming the presidency of the faltering Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company in 1836 and resigning two years later after having placed the company back on a sound footig. As an attorney he became so successful that he was admitted in 1939 to the bar of the United States Supreme Court. In 1842 Robinson became reporter to the Virginia Court of Appeals. Together with John Mercer Patton he was selected in 1846 by the Virginia legislature to revise the Commonwealth's civil code and the following year to revise the criminal code; he was elected to the legislature in 1952 to adapt these revisions to the state's new constitution. Robinson's legal works include the three-volume Practice in the Courts of Law and Equity in

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