The revised statutes of West Virginia in force December 1878, alphabetically arranged. Volume 1 : containing the Code of West Virginia, unrepealed, and as amended or changed by subsequent legislation ; all acts of a general nature passed since the code, and yet in force ; also those passed before the code took effect, and not embodied therein, but yet unrepealed ; with notes tracing the law in its origin, showing the identity or difference between the Code of W. Va and Code of Va., 1860, and between the Code of W. Va. and all subsequent legislation ; also, notes of and references to all the applicable decisions in Virginia and West Virginia to the present date, including copious notes from the common law decisions and adjudications from supreme courts of United States, Illinois, Wisconsin, and many other states ; also, the Constitution of West Virginia freely annotated, preceded by the United States laws applicable to West Virginia. / compiled and annotated by John F. Kelly.