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Excerpt from Speeches, Arguments, and Miscellaneous Papers of David Dudley Field, Vol. 2 What are the rules Of public law by which the question of right, in this case, is to be judged? They are these. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from Speeches, Arguments, and Miscellaneous Papers of David Dudley Field, Vol. 3 David Dudley Field was born in 1805 in Connecticut and died in New York City in 1894, having achieved in his lifetime the honor of being known as "The Father of United States legal reform." He spent his whole life campaigning to bring about codification of common-law procedure in New York State. While the codification was never completely adopted in New York, the codes that he worked on were extensively adopted in many other States and other countries. His arguments for codifying common-law procedure were published in a pamphlet entitled The Reorganization of the Judiciary. This pamphlet was instrumental...
Excerpt from Speeches, Arguments, and Miscellaneous Papers of David Dudley Field, Vol. 1 This compilation was undertaken, as the title-page indicates, by Mr. A. P. Sprague. Ho had proceeded beyond the half of the second volume, when the work was interrupted by his sudden death. The loss was a severe one, for he was a young man of much promise, and had distinguished himself by winning the prize offered by M. Marcuarto, of Spain, through the Association for the Reform and Codification of the Law of Nations, for the best essay upon the codification of public International Law. His death interrupted for a time the completion of the present work. It was his intention to insert a preliminary essay...