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THAYER, JAMES BRADLEY (1831—1902)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 728 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THAYER, See also:JAMES See also:BRADLEY (1831—1902) , See also:American legal writer and educationist, was See also:born at See also:Haverhill, See also:Massachusetts, on the 15th of See also:January 1831. He graduated at Harvard See also:College in 1852, and at the Harvard See also:Law School In 1856, in which See also:year he was admitted to the See also:bar of See also:Suffolk See also:county and began to practise in See also:Boston. In 1873—83 he was Royall See also:professor of law at Harvard; in 1883 he was transferred to the professor-See also:ship which after 1893 was known as the Weld professorship and which he held until his See also:death on the 14th of See also:February 1902. He took an especial See also:interest in the See also:historical See also:evolution of law. He wrote: The Origin and See also:Scope of the American See also:Doctrine of Constitutional Law (1893) ; Cases on See also:Evidence (1892) ; Cases on Constitutional Law (1895); The Development of Trial by See also:Jury (1896); A Preliminary See also:Treatise on Evidence at the See also:Common Law (1898), and a See also:short See also:life of See also:John See also:Marshall (1901); and edited the twelfth edition of See also:Kent's Commentaries and the Letters of See also:Chauncey See also:Wright (1877), and A Westward See also:Journey with Mr See also:Emerson (1884).

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