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LEVI, LEONE (1821-1888)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 511 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LEVI, LEONE (1821-1888) , See also:English jurist and statistician, was See also:born of Jewish parents on the 6th of See also:June 1821, at See also:Ancona, See also:Italy. After receiving an See also:early training in a business See also:house in his native See also:town, he went to See also:Liverpool in 1844, became naturalized, and changing his faith, joined the Presbyterian See also:church. Perceiving the See also:necessity, in view of the unsystematic See also:condition of the English See also:law on the subject, for the See also:establishment of See also:chambers and tribunals of See also:commerce in See also:England, he warmly advocated their institution in numerous See also:pamphlets; and as a result of his labours the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, of which Levi was made secretary, was founded in 1849. In 185o Levi published his Commercial Law of the See also:World, being an exhaustive and See also:comparative See also:treatise upon the See also:laws and codes of See also:mercantile countries. Appointed in 1852 to the See also:chair of commercial law in See also:King's See also:College, See also:London, he proved himself a highly competent and popular instructor, and his evening classes were a most successful innovation. He was called to the See also:bar at See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn in 1859, and received from the university of See also:Tubingen the degree of See also:doctor of See also:political See also:science. His See also:chief See also:workSee also:History of See also:British Commerce and of the Economic Progress of the British Nation, 1763-1870, is perhaps a rather too See also:partisan See also:account of British economic development, being a eulogy upon the blessings of See also:Free See also:Trade, but its value as a work of reference cannot be gainsaid. Among his other See also:works are: Work and Pay; See also:Wages and Earnings of the Working Classes; See also:International Law, with Materials for a See also:Code. He died on the 7th of May 1888.

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