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See also:WHARTON, See also:FRANCIS (1820–1889) , See also:American legal writer and educationalist, was See also:born in See also:Philadelphia, See also:Pennsylvania, on the 7th of See also:March 1820. He graduated at Yale in 1839, was admitted to the See also:bar in 1843, became prominent in Pennsylvania politics as a Democrat, and in Philadelphia edited the See also:North American and See also:United States See also:Gazette. He was See also:professor of See also:English See also:history and literature at See also:Kenyon See also:College, See also:Gambier, See also:Ohio, in 1856–1863. He took orders in the See also:Protestant Episcopal See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church in 1862 and in 1863–1869 was See also:rector of St See also:Paul's Church, See also:Brook-See also:line, See also:Massachusetts. In 1871–1881 he taught ecclesiastical polity and See also:canon See also:law in the Protestant Episcopal Theological School at See also:Cambridge, Massachusetts, and at this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he lectured on the conflict of See also:laws at See also:Boston University. For two years he travelled in See also:Europe, and after two years in Philadelphia he went to See also:Washington, D.C., where he was lecturer on criminal law (1885–1886) and then professor of criminal law (1886–1888) at Columbian (now See also:George Washington) University; in 1885–1888 he was See also:solicitor (or examiner of claims) of the See also:Department of See also:State, and from 1888 to his See also:death on the 21st of See also:February 1889 was employed on an edition (authorized by See also:Congress) of the Revolutionary See also:Diplomatic See also:Correspondence of the United States (6 vols., 1889, ed. by J. B. See also:Moore), which superseded See also:Sparks's compilation. Wharton was a " broad churchman " and was deeply interested in the hymnology of his church. He received the degree of I.L.D. from the university of See also:Edinburgh in 1883, and was the foremost American authority on See also:international law.
He published: A See also:Treatise on the Criminal Law of the United States (1846; many times reprinted); State Trials of the United States during the Administrations of Washington and See also:- ADAMS
- ADAMS, ANDREW LEITH (1827-1882)
- ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS (1807-1886)
- ADAMS, HENRY (1838— )
- ADAMS, HENRY CARTER (1852— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT (i858— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT BAXTER (1850—1901)
- ADAMS, JOHN (1735–1826)
- ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY (1767-1848)
- ADAMS, SAMUEL (1722-1803)
- ADAMS, THOMAS (d. c. 1655)
- ADAMS, WILLIAM (d. 162o)
Adams (1849) ; A Treatise on the Law of See also:Homicide in the United States (1855) ; with Moreton Stifle, A Treatise on Medical See also:Jurisprudence (1855) ; See also:Modern See also:Theism (18J9), in which he applied rules of legal See also:evidence to modern sceptical theories; A Treatise on the Conflict of Laws (1872; 3rd ed. 1905) ; A Treatise on the Law of See also:Negligence (1874) ; A Commentary on the Law of Agency and Agents (1876), A Commentary on the Law of Evidence in See also:Civil Issues (1877; 3rd ed. 1888) ; a See also:companion See also:work on Criminal Evidence; Commentary on the Law of Contracts (1882); Commentaries on Law (1884) ; and a See also:Digest of the International Law of the United States (3 vols. 1886).
See the Memoir (Philadelphia, 1891) by his daughter, Mrs Viele, and several See also:friends; and J. B. Moore's Brief See also:Sketch of the See also:Life of Francis Wharton," prefaced to the first See also:volume of the Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence.
End of Article: WHARTON, FRANCIS (1820–1889)
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