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BINNEY, HORACE (1780-1875)

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BINNEY, See also:HORACE (1780-1875) , See also:American lawyer, was See also:born in See also:Philadelphia, See also:Pennsylvania, on the 4th of See also:January 1780. He graduated at Harvard See also:College in 1797, and studied See also:law in the See also:office of Jared See also:Ingersoll (1749-1822), who had been a member of the Constitutional See also:convention of 1787, and who from 1791 to 1800 and again from 1811 to 1816 was the See also:attorney-See also:general of Pennsylvania. Admitted to the See also:bar in Philadelphia in 1800, Binney practised with See also:great success for See also:half a See also:century, and was recognized as one of the leaders of the bar in the See also:United States. He served in the Pennsylvania legislature in 1806-1807, and was a Whig member of the See also:National See also:House of Representatives from 1833 until 1835, ably defending the United States See also:Bank, and in general opposing the policy of See also:President See also:Andrew See also:Jackson. His 1 See N. Quellien, Chansons et danses See also:des Bretons (See also:Paris, 1889), p. 39, and See also:note, where the description of the See also:instrument is not technical. ' See Le Gonidec, Dictionnaire See also:breton-See also:francais, ed. by T. Hersart de la Villemarque; and N. Quellien, op. cit. p. 37, note. ' For examples of these see N.

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part ii.most famous See also:case, in which he was unsuccessfully opposed by See also:Daniel See also:Webster, was the case of Bidal v. See also:Girard's Executors, which involved the disposition of the See also:fortune of See also:Stephen Girard (q.v.). Binney's See also:argument in this case greatly influenced the See also:interpretation of the law of charities. Binney made many public addresses, the most noteworthy of which, entitled See also:Life and See also:Character of See also:Chief See also:Justice See also:Marshall, was published in 1835. He also published Leaders of the Old Bar of Philadelphia (1858), and an Inquiry into the Formation of See also:Washington's Farewell Address (1859); and during the See also:Civil See also:War he issued three See also:pamphlets (1861, 1862 and 1865), discussing the right of habeas corpus under the American Constitution, and justifying President See also:Lincoln in his suspension of the See also:writ. See the Life of Horace Binney (Philadelphia, 19o4) by his See also:grandson, C. C. Binney.

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