Life And Letters Of Joseph Story Book

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CHAPTER II. JUDICIAL LIFE. Scheme Of Treatises On Jurisprudence—Illness Of Chief JusTice Marshall — Exclusiveness Of The English Bar In ReSpect To American Jurisprudence — Death Of Chief Justice Parker—My Father Requested To Take The Office Of Chief Justice Of Massachusetts—Declines It—Sketch Of Chief Justice Parker — Health Breaks Down — Lines Entitled, " Sketches Of Character " — Couplets Written In MemoranDum-books Of Arguments — Letters Written From WashingTon—Verses Entitled, " Advice To A Young Lawyer " — BuildIng OF THE NEW LAW COLLEGE — CHEROKEE MISSIONARY CASE — Charlestown Bridge Case —Publication Of Commentaries On Bailments — Sketch Of It — Dedication — Begins To Print Commentaries On The Constitution Of The United States — Hl8 Systematic Industry — Amount Of His Labors — Hls PerSONAL Habits — Letter On The Bill For Apportioning RepreSentation— Letters — Sketch Of His Life And Services, By Mr. Everett—Proclamation Of General Jackson Against The Nullification Doctrines Of South Carolina. Mr. Dane, in the communication to the Corporation of Harvard University, accompanying his donation, proposed that the Professor on his foundation should " prepare and deliver and revise for publication a course of Lectures on the five following branches of Law and Equity, equally in force in all parts of our Federal Republic, namely, — The Law of Nature, The Law of Nations, Commercial and Maritime Law, Federal Law, and Federal Equity, in such wide extent as the same branches now are, and from time to time shall be adininistered in the Courts of the United States, but in such compressed form as the Professor shall deem proper." As the method of teaching adopted in the school was by familiar and conversational expositions, and not by written lectures, a variation of Mr. Dane's...