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GEORGE JOSEPH BELL (1770-1843)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 685 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEORGE See also:JOSEPH See also:BELL (1770-1843)  , Scottish jurist, was See also:born at See also:Edinburgh on the loth of See also:March 1770 . He was an See also:elder See also:brother of See also:Sir See also:Charles See also:Bell . At the See also:age of eight he entered the high school, but he received no university See also:education further than attending the lectures of A . F . See also:Tytler, Dugald See also:Stewart and See also:Hume . He became a member of the See also:Faculty of See also:Advocates in 1791, and was one of the earliest and most attached See also:friends of See also:Francis See also:Jeffrey . In 1804 he published a See also:Treatise on the See also:Law of See also:Bankruptcy in See also:Scotland, which he subsequently enlarged and published in 1826 under the See also:title of Commentaries on the Law of Scotland and on the principles of See also:Mercantile See also:Jurisprudence—an institutional See also:work of the very highest excellence, which has had its value acknowledged by such eminent jurists as See also:Joseph See also:Story and See also:James See also:Kent . In 1821 Bell was elected See also:professor of the law of Scotland in the university of Edinburgh; and in 1831 he was appointed to one of the See also:principal clerkships in the supreme See also:court . He was placed at the See also:head of a See also:commission in 1833 to inquire into the Scottish bankruptcy law; and in consequence of the reports of the commissioners, chiefly See also:drawn up by himself, many beneficial alterations were made . He died on the 23rd of See also:September 1843 . Bell's smaller treatise, Principles of the Law of Scotland, became a See also:standard See also:text-See also:book for law students . The Illustrations of the Principles is also a work of high value .

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