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Bryson on Virginia Civil Procedure - Fourth
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PREFACE
The scope of this work is the procedure and practice of civil litigation in
Virginia state courts. Occasionally, there will be an excursus into releva.pt
Virginia legal history in order to give the background to the present state of the
law. This book proceeds generally from pretrial litigation devices to jurisdiction
and parties, pleading, discovery, motions at trial, appeals and enforcement of final
judgments. It does not include the law of evidence, probate proceedings, criminal
procedure, administrative practice, or federal law.
The strategy of the footnotes is to refer to the relevant statutes and rules of
court and sample reports of appellate cases. I have included general references
to the various relevant sections of Michie's Jurisprudence of Virginia and West
Virginia, which is cited as M.J., so that, from them, the reader can easily find
references to all of the other appellate court opinions going all the way back
to the eighteenth century. Since the various Virginia legal reference books have
not yet included citations to the Virginia Circuit Court Opinions, they have been
included here somewhat fully. References to the older treatises on Virginia civil
procedure are given on order to assist research on points of historical
development.
W.H.B.
Richmond, Virginia
December 2005
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