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Location: Judicial Center, Room 306, 9311 Lee Avenue, Manassas, Virginia 20110
Office hours: 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except holidays Phone: 703-792-6015 E-mail: courts@pwcgov.org
Special Preservation Project
The processing, indexing, and digital reformatting of the Prince William County chancery causes is now complete. The index and images have been added to the Library of Virginia’s (LVA) on-line Chancery Records Index and are now available for searching through the LVA Web site. The Prince William County chancery collection covers the years 1804 through 1951. The bulk of the collection consists of cases dating 1831 through 1921. Prince William County joins the growing list of localities whose chancery causes have been preserved and made available through the Library’s innovative Circuit Court Records Preservation Program, which seeks to preserve the historic records of Virginia’s Circuit Courts. Please see the Chancery Records Index for a listing of additional locality chancery collections that are available. Chancery causes are cases that are decided on the basis of equity and fairness as opposed to the strictly formulated rules of common law cases. Chancery cases are especially useful when researching local history, genealogical information, and land or estate divisions. They are a valuable source of local, state, social, and legal history and serve as a primary source for understanding a locality’s history. Chancery causes often contain correspondence; property lists, including slaves; lists of heirs; and vital statistics, along with many other records. Some of the more common types of chancery causes involve divisions of the estate of a person who died intestate (without a will); divorces; settlements of dissolved business partnerships; and resolutions of land disputes.
Please notify the Circuit Court Clerk's Office by e-mail if you find that any of the links on this page do not work.
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