Online Encyclopedia

HORACE BINNEY (1780-1875)

Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 949 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
Spread the word: del.icio.us del.icio.us it!

HORACE BINNEY (1780-1875)  ,
See also:
American lawyer, was born in
See also:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the 4th of
See also:
January 1780 . He graduated at Harvard College in 1797, and studied law in the office of Jared Ingersoll (1749-1822), who had been a member of the Constitutional convention of 1787, and who from 1791 to 1800 and again from 1811 to 1816 was the attorney-general of Pennsylvania . Admitted to the bar in Philadelphia in 1800, Binney practised with
See also:
great success for
See also:
half a century, and was recognized as one of the leaders of the bar in the
See also:
United States . He served in the Pennsylvania legislature in 1806-1807, and was a Whig member of the
See also:
National House of Representatives from 1833 until 1835, ably defending the United States
See also:
Bank, and in general opposing the policy of President Andrew Jackson . His 1 See N . Quellien, Chansons et danses
See also:
des Bretons (Paris, 1889), p . 39, and note, where the description of the instrument is not technical . ' See Le Gonidec, Dictionnaire breton-francais, ed. by T . Hersart de la Villemarque; and N . Quellien, op. cit. p . 37, note . ' For examples of these see N .

Quellien, op. cit.

See also:
part ii.most famous case, in which he was unsuccessfully opposed by Daniel Webster, was the case of Bidal v . Girard's Executors, which involved the disposition of the fortune of Stephen Girard (q.v.) . Binney's
See also:
argument in this case greatly influenced the interpretation of the law of charities . Binney made many public addresses, the most noteworthy of which, entitled
See also:
Life and Character of Chief Justice Marshall, was published in 1835 . He also published Leaders of the Old Bar of Philadelphia (1858), and an Inquiry into the Formation of Washington's Farewell Address (1859); and during the
See also:
Civil War he issued three
See also:
pamphlets (1861, 1862 and 1865), discussing the right of habeas corpus under the American Constitution, and justifying President Lincoln in his suspension of the writ . See the Life of Horace Binney (Philadelphia, 19o4) by his grandson, C . C . Binney .

End of Article: HORACE BINNEY (1780-1875)
[back]
EDWARD WILLIAM BINNEY (1812-1881)
[next]
THOMAS BINNEY (1798-1874)

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click and select "copy." Paste it into a website, email, or other HTML document.