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Summer of Uncertainty: Adaptations to Revolutionary Pressure in Virginia’s County Courts, 1774.

This article examines the responses of Virginia’s county courts to the expiration of the Fee Bill in April 1774 amid rising revolutionary tensions, focusing on how legal and economic pressures influenced court operations during that summer of uncertainty. While George and Thomson Mason advocated for...

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Published in:Transactions of the American Philosophical Society Vol. 115; no. 2; pp. 75 - 110
Main Author: McCleskey, Turk
Format: Article
Published: University of Pennsylvania Press Jun2026
Subjects:
Court system
Economic impact
State courts
Court personnel
Protest movements
Political stability
Virginia
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