Lawyer's commonplace book

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Lawyer's commonplace book

1801-1807

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990114565650203941/catalog

A commonplace book covering a variety of legal topics, arranged alphabetically, with excerpts from and citations to English legal writers. Most excerpts are from William Blackstone's Commentaries on the laws of England. Some pages and some topics left blank.

1 v. ; 24 cm.

eng, Latn

Harvard Law School Library Langdell Hall Cambridge, MA 02138

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Harvard Law School Library Langdell Hall Cambridge, MA 02138

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Wambaugh, Eugene, 1856-1940

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Wambaugh was a professor at the Harvard Law School from 1892-1925. His career included terms as member of the board of editors for the American Political Science Review (1906-1913), special counsel to the U.S. State Department (1914), delegate to the Pan American Scientific Congress (1915-1916) and Counsel of the Peruvian Government on Tacna-Arica Plebiscite (1925-26). From the description of Letter to James McCauley Landis, 9 May, 1938. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record ...

Greenleaf, Simon, 1783-1853

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Simon Greenleaf was born on December 5, 1783 in Newburyport, Massachusetts, where he attended the Latin School from 1790-1799. In 1801, he entered apprenticeship in Ezekiel Whitman's Gloucester, Maine law office. In June 1806, Cumberland County, Maine admitted Greenleaf to the Bar. On September 18, 1806, Greenleaf married Hannah Kingman, daughter to Capt. Ezra Kingman of East Bridgewater, Massachusetts. From 1807-1817, Greenleaf practiced law in Gray, Maine before moving his law practi...