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See also:FEARNE, See also:CHARLES (1742-1794) , See also:English jurist, son of Charles Fearne, See also:judge-See also:advocate of the See also:admiralty, was See also:born in See also:London in 1742, 'and was educated at See also:Westminster school. He adopted the legal profession, but, though well fitted by his talents to succeed as a See also:barrister, he neglected his profession and devoted most of his See also:attention and his patrimony to the See also:prosecution of scientific experiments, with the vain See also:hope of achieving discoveries which would See also:reward him for his pains and expense. He died in 1794, leaving his widow and See also:family in necessitous circumstances. His See also:Essay on the Learning of Contingent Remainders and Executory Devises, the See also:work which has made his reputation as a legal authority, and which has passed through numerous See also:editions, was called forth by a decision of See also:Lord Mans-See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field in the See also:case of Perrin v. See also:Blake, and had the effect of See also:reversing that decision.
A See also:volume entitled Fearne's See also:Posthumous See also:Works was published by subscription in 1797 for the benefit of his widow.
End of Article: FEARNE, CHARLES (1742-1794)
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