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Preferred Citation

Richmond (Va.) Chancery Cause, Attorney General vs. Bradley, etc., 1828-1829, Robert Alonzo Brock Collection, Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Acquisition Information

The Robert Alonzo Brock Collection was filmed by The Huntington Library in cooperation with The Library of Virginia with funding provided by The Library of Virginia Foundation with the support of The Roller-Bottimore Foundation and The Robins Foundation. Microfilm received 15 April 2004.

Historical Information

Chancery Causes are cases of equity. According to Black's Law Dictionary they are "administered according to fairness as contrasted with the strictly formulated rules of common law." A judge, not a jury, determines the outcome of the case.

Richmond, located between Henrico and Chesterfield Counties, was named by William Byrd II, who envisioned the development of a city at the falls of the James River and with the help of William Mayo laid out the town in 1737. It was incorporated as a town in 1782 and as a city in 1842.

Scope and Content

Richmond (Va.) Chancery Cause, Attorney General vs. Bradley, etc., 1828-1829. The collection consists of affidavits and genealogies of the Bradley family of Lansdale, York County, England. The records pertain to claims by the Bradley family of England on the estate of Thomas H. Bradley, who died in Richmond in 1826. A note indicates the records were found in the office of a Mr. Leigh in 1850 and taken to the chancery office, where it was learned "that the suit of the Attorney General vs. Bradley, etc., had been long since decided."

Related Material

Additional Richmond (City) Court Records can be found on microfilm at The Library of Virginia web site. Consult "A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm."

See The Chancery Records Index to search for chancery suits of additional Virginia localities.

Richmond (City) is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities. Additional Richmond (City) Court Records may be found in the Virginia Lost Records Localities Collection at the Library of Virginia. Search the Lost Records Localities Database found at the Library of Virginia web site.

Index Terms

Corporate Names:

• Richmond (Va.) Circuit Court.

Subjects:

• Equity-- Virginia--Richmond.
• Public records-- Virginia--Richmond.

Geographical Names:

• Richmond (Va.)--History--19th century.

Genre and Form Terms:

• Affidavits--Virginia--Richmond.
• Chancery causes--Virginia--Richmond.
• Genealogies--Virginia--Richmond.
• Judicial records--Virginia--Richmond.
• Local government records--Virginia--Richmond.

Added Entry - Personal Name:

• Brock, R. A. (Robert Alonzo), 1839-1914, collector.

Added Entry - Corporate Name:

• Robert Alonzo Brock Collection

Adjunct Descriptive Data

Originals are located at the Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California.