biography
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| (1783–1853)
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| biography:
| Lawyer and professor, born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, USA. He read and practised law in Maine from 1806, and when Maine became a state he was appointed reporter to its supreme judicial court (1820–32). He then became a professor of law at Harvard (1833–48). Always deliberate and thorough, as seen in his widely hailed Treatise on the Law of Evidence (3 vols, 1842–53), he is regarded, along with Joseph Story, as instrumental in shaping Harvard Law School. |
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