Legal Opinion
State of Maine v. Adams
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided February 27, 2009No. Record 080987PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION BY Justice BARBARA MILANO KEENAN.
This appeal concerns an action to quiet title to a copy of the Declaration of Independence (the Declaration) that was printed in July 1776. We consider whether the circuit court erred in holding that a Virginia resident *864 who purchased this document had superior title than that claimed by the State of Maine, which contended that the document was a public record owned by the Town of Wiscasset, Maine.
In July 1776, after the Second Continental Congress approved the Declaration of Independence, each of the colonial delegations was charged with informing its…
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