biography
pronunciation:
[viyner]
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| lived:
| (1678–1756)
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| biography:
| Legal scholar, born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, S England, UK. He studied law at Oxford, but never qualified and never practised, yet he produced a massive Abridgment of Law and Equity of the law of England in 23 volumes (1741–56). He left most of his considerable estate to Oxford University to enable it to found the Vinerian Scholarships and the Vinerian chair of English law, first held by Sir William Blackstone. |
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