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CHARLES FEARNE (1742-1794)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 220 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES See also:FEARNE (1742-1794)  , See also:English jurist, son of See also:Charles See also:Fearne, See also:judge-See also:advocate of the See also:admiralty, was See also:born in See also:London in 1742, 'and was educated at See also:Westminster school . He adopted the legal profession, but, though well fitted by his talents to succeed as a See also:barrister, he neglected his profession and devoted most of his See also:attention and his patrimony to the See also:prosecution of scientific experiments, with the vain See also:hope of achieving discoveries which would See also:reward him for his pains and expense . He died in 1794, leaving his widow and See also:family in necessitous circumstances . His See also:Essay on the Learning of Contingent Remainders and Executory Devises, the See also:work which has made his reputation as a legal authority, and which has passed through numerous See also:editions, was called forth by a decision of See also:Lord Mans-See also:field in the See also:case of Perrin v . See also:Blake, and had the effect of See also:reversing that decision . A See also:volume entitled Fearne's See also:Posthumous See also:Works was published by subscription in 1797 for the benefit of his widow .

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