Supreme Court of Virginia June 15, 1830 (Lockridge v. Carlisle)

BROOKS, P.

It is very probable, that the legislature, by the provisions of the statute made in 1819, on this subject, intended only to facilitate the acknowledgment of foreign deeds, by extending the authority to take acknowledgments of such deeds, to two justices of the peace, where the party executing the same resided in any of the U.