| Date | 1642 |
|---|---|
| Law/Legislation | Law |
| Jurisdiction | VA |
| Title | Act LX |
| Description/Full Text | Whereas at an Assembly in October, 1639, in consideration that divers ill-disposed persons, did covertly trade and truck with other men's servants and apprentices, which tended to the injury of masters of families, their servants being thereby induced to purloin the goods of their masters, it is enacted that what persons should buy or trade, with any servant for any commodity without consent of the master of the servant, they should be imprisoned for one month and forfeit to the master of the servant four times the value of the thing bought. |
| Additional Information | – |
| Source | Black Laws of Virginia, By: June Purcell Guild |
| Transcriber Notes | – |
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