biography
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| lived:
| (1756–1827)
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| biography:
| Jurist, born in Talbot Co, Maryland, USA. A Loyalist, he sat out the Revolutionary war reading law at his family's estate in Maryland. A member of the Maryland assembly (1788–90) and senate (1791), he moved to Philadelphia to practise law (1795), sat on Pennsylvania's court of appeals (1805), and was chief justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1806–27). Trustee of the University of Pennsylvania (1802–27) and president of the American Philosophical Society (1824–7), he is credited with trying to apply more objective equity to Pennsylvania law. |
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