A warrant is a document or paper issued by a judge giving power or authority to a policeman, or other officer of the law, to arrest a criminal, or an offender, in order to have him brought to trial.  A warrant issued authorizing an officer to search for property stolen or detained, is called a search warrant.  Bail is security given for the release of a person from prison.  When a person is arrested and charged with a crime he may, if the crime be not a very serious one, be let out of prison and left at liberty until trial, if some one will give security or pledge for him that he will appear in court on the day appointed for the trial.  If the amount required is small, the security is usually given in the shape of money, but if the amount is large, it is given in the shape of a bond called a bail-bond.

The person giving the bail-bond must be one who owns real estate to the value of the amount of bail, and if the person to be tried does not appear for trial at the time appointed, the person who gives the bond may be required to pay the amount into court.

Concurrent jurisdiction is the same or equal jurisdiction.  Revenue is the income or money which the State or corporation receives in the shape of taxes.  Taxes are the moneys collected by the State or by towns or cities for defraying the expenses of government.  The owners of certain kinds of property have to pay taxes in proportion to the value of their property.

Violation of the revenue laws is a violation of any of the laws made for the levying and collection of taxes.  There is a tax upon the selling of certain articles, such as liquors and tobacco, and if a person sells such articles without paying the tax, it is a violation of the revenue laws.

A code is a collection of the laws of the State or country.  The Code of Virginia is a book containing the statute laws of Virginia.  A misdemeanor is any crime less than a felony. (For felony, see page 13.)

Hustings Court of the City of Richmond.

Judge elected by the General Assembly for a term of eight years. 
Salary, $3,500.

Qualifications.  Same as those of a Circuit Judge.  Terms.  Held monthly except the month of August.

Hustings is the name given to a court formerly held in many cities of England, and applied specially to a court held within the City of London before the Lord Mayor and other magistrates.

Jurisdiction.  Exclusive original jurisdiction of all presentments, indictments, and informations for offences committed within the corporate limits (except prosecutions against convicts in the penitentiary); concurrent jurisdiction of all presentments, indictments, and informations for offences committed within the space of one mile beyond the corporate limits on the north side of the James River, and to low-water mark on the south side of James River; concurrent jurisdiction with the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond of actions of forcible or unlawful entry and detainer; exclusive jurisdiction of all appeals from the judgments of the Police Justice’s Court, all causes removable from said court, all proceedings for the condemnation of land or property for public use, all motions to correct erroneous assessments.