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See also:BOUVIER, See also:JOHN (1787—1851) , See also:American jurist, was See also:born in Codogno, See also:France, in 1787. In 1802 his See also:family, who were See also:Quakers (his See also:mother was a member of the well-known Benezet family), emigrated to See also:America and settled in See also:Philadelphia, and after varied experiences as proprietor of a See also:book See also:shop and as a See also:country editor he was admitted to the See also:bar in 1818, having become a See also:citizen of the See also:United States in 1812. He attained high See also:standing in his profession, was See also:recorder of Philadelphia in 1836, and from 1838 until his See also:death was an See also:associate See also:justice of the See also:court of criminal sessions in that See also:city. He is best known for his able legal writings. His See also:Law See also:Dictionary Adapted to the Constitution and See also:Laws of the United States of America and of the Several States of the American See also:Union (1839, revised and brought up to date by See also:Francis Rawle, under the See also:title of Bouvier's Law Dictionary, 2 vols., 1897) has always been a See also:standard. He published also an edition of See also:- BACON
- BACON (through the O. Fr. bacon, Low Lat. baco, from a Teutonic word cognate with " back," e.g. O. H. Ger. pacho, M. H. Ger. backe, buttock, flitch of bacon)
- BACON, FRANCIS (BARON VERULAM, VISCOUNT ST ALBANS) (1561-1626)
- BACON, JOHN (1740–1799)
- BACON, LEONARD (1802–1881)
- BACON, ROGER (c. 1214-c. 1294)
- BACON, SIR NICHOLAS (1509-1579)
Bacon's Abridgment of the Law (to vols., 1842—1846), and a compendium of American law entitled The Institutes of American Law (4 vols., 1851; new ed. 2 vols., 1876).
End of Article: BOUVIER, JOHN (1787—1851)
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