Chancery order books, 1831-1904

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Microfilm of original records at the Norfolk County Courthouse in Portsmouth, Virginia.

Norfolk County became extinct in 1963 when it merged with the city of South Norfolk to form the city of Chesapeake.

The Circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery existed from 1831 to 1851 when it was replaced by the Circuit Court.

For these cases the Circuit Court sat in chancery which meant it acted as a court of equity. Equity law is a body of legal and procedural rules and doctrines which supplement or override common and statute law to protect rights land enforce duties defined or fixed by substantive law. The court usually dealt with cases which did not need a jury, such as divorces or foreclosures. Orders are judgments based on those laws.

Volumes, except for v. 2, are individually indexed.

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