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LANGDELL, See also:CHRISTOPHER See also:COLUMBUS (1826—19(36) , See also:American jurist, was See also:born in New See also:Boston, Hillsborough See also:county, New See also:Hampshire, on the 22nd of May 1826, of See also:English and Scotch-Irish ancestry. He studied at See also:Phillips See also:Exeter See also:Academy in 1845—1848, at Harvard See also:College in 1848—185o and in the Harvard See also:Law School in 1851—1854. He practised law in 1854—1870 in New See also:York See also:City, but he was almost unknown when, in See also:January 187o, he was appointed Dane See also:professor of law (and soon afterwards See also:Dean of the Law See also:Faculty) of Harvard University, to succeed See also:Theophilus See also:Parsons, to whose See also:Treatise on the Law of Contracts (18J3) he had contributed as a student. He resigned the deanship in 1895, in 1900 became Dane professor See also:emeritus, and on the 6th of See also:July 1906 died in See also:Cambridge. He received the degree of LL.D. in 1875; in 1903 a See also:chair in the law school was named in his See also:honour; and after his See also:death one of the school's buildings was named Langdell See also:Hall. He made the Harvard Law School a success by remodelling its See also:administration and by introducing the " See also:case " See also:system of instruction. Langdell wrote Selection of Cases on the Law of Contracts (187o, the first See also:book used in the " case " system; enlarged, 1877); Cases on Sales (1872); See also:Summary of See also:Equity See also:Pleading (1877, 2nd ed., 1883); Cases in Equity Pleading (1883); and Brief Survey of Equity See also:Jurisdiction (1905).

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