William Roscoe Wilson Curl was a

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lawyer and judge. Born in Tidewater, Virginia, Curl studied law and then practiced in the

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s. He was made a judge of the

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in 1777 and thus automatically became a justice of the first Virginia Court of Appeals (now the

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). He died a short time later, by February 1782.

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