Reed v. Harrod

The action brought by Margaret Harrod, heir-at-law to James Harrod, deceased, in the court below, is founded on an act of the Virginia assembly, passed at the October session in the year 1779, entitled “an act to suppress excessive gaming.” The latter part of the first section of this act, which is the only part of it that can by any construction be applied to the present case, provides that “ any conveyance or lease of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, sold, demised, or mortgaged; and any sale, mortgage, or other transfer of slaves, or other personal estate, to any person, or for his use,…