See also:

• DAVID
• DAVID (a Hebrew name meaning probably beloved 1)
• DAVID, FELICIEN (1810—1876)
• DAVID, GERARD [GHEERAERT DAVIT], (?=1523)
• DAVID, PIERRE JEAN (1789–1856)
• DAVID, ST (Dewi, Sant)

DAVID See also:

• DUDLEY
• DUDLEY, BARONS AND EARLS OF
• DUDLEY, EDMUND (c. 1462—1510)
• DUDLEY, SIR ROBERT (1573—1649)
• DUDLEY, THOMAS (1576-1653)

DUDLEY See also:

• FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
• FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
• DAVID DUDLEY FIELD (18o5-1894)
• FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
• FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
• FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
• FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
• FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
• FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
• FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
• FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)

FIELD (18o5-1894)  , See also:

• AMERICAN

American lawyer and See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law reformer, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in Haddam, See also:

• CONNECTICUT

Connecticut, on the 13th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1805 . He was the See also:

• OLDEST

oldest of the four sons of the Rev . See also:

• DAVID
• DAVID (a Hebrew name meaning probably beloved 1)
• DAVID, FELICIEN (1810—1876)
• DAVID, GERARD [GHEERAERT DAVIT], (?=1523)
• DAVID, PIERRE JEAN (1789–1856)
• DAVID, ST (Dewi, Sant)

David See also:

• DUDLEY
• DUDLEY, BARONS AND EARLS OF
• DUDLEY, EDMUND (c. 1462—1510)
• DUDLEY, SIR ROBERT (1573—1649)
• DUDLEY, THOMAS (1576-1653)

Dudley See also:

• FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
• FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
• FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
• FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
• FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
• FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
• FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
• FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
• FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
• FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
• FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)

Field (1781-1867), a well-known American clergyman and author . He graduated at See also:

• WILLIAMS
• WILLIAMS, JOHN (1582-1650)
• WILLIAMS, JOHN (1796-1839)
• WILLIAMS, ROGER (c. 1604–1684)
• WILLIAMS, ROWLAND (1817-1870)
• WILLIAMS, SIR WILLIAM FENWICK

Williams See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College in 1825, and settled in New See also:

• YORK
• YORK (HOUSE OF)
• YORK, EDMUND OF LANGLEY, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
• YORK, EDWARD
• YORK, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
• YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

York See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

City, where he studied law, was admitted to the See also:

• BAR
• BAR (0. Fr. barre, Late Lat. barra, origin unknown)
• BAR, CONFEDERATION OF
• BAR, FRANCOIS DE (1538-1606)
• BAR, THE

bar in 1828, and rapidly won a high position in his profession . Becoming convinced that the See also:

• COMMON

common law in See also:

• AMERICA

America, and particularly in New York See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state, needed See also:

• RADICAL (Lat. radix, a root)

radical changes in respect to the unification and simplification of its See also:

• PROCEDURE (Fr. procedure, from Lat. procedere, to go for-ward)

procedure, he visited See also:

• EUROPE

Europe in 1836 and thoroughly investigated the courts, procedure and codes of See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England, See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France and other countries, and then applied himself to the task of bringing about in the See also:

• UNITED

United States a codification of the common law procedure . For more than See also:

• FORTY

forty years every moment that he could spare from his extensive practice was devoted to this end . He entered upon his See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• WORK

work by a systematic publication of See also:

• PAMPHLETS

pamphlets and articles in See also:

• JOURNALS

journals and magazines in behalf of his reform, but for some years he met with a discouraging lack of See also:

• INTEREST

interest . He appeared personally before successive legislative committees, andin 1846 published a pamphlet, " The Reorganization of the Judiciary," which had its See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence in persuading the New York State Constitutional See also:

• CONVENTION (Lat. conventio, an assembly or agreement, from convenire, to come together)
• CONVENTION, THE NATIONAL

Convention of that See also:

• YEAR

year to See also:

• REPORT (O.Fr. report or raport, modern rapport, from O.Fr. reporter, mod. rap porter, Lat. reportare, to bring back, in poetical use only, of bringing back an account, news, &c.)

report in favour of a codification of the See also:

• LAWS

laws . Finally in 1847 he was appointed as the See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head of a state See also:

• COMMISSION (from Lat. commissio, committere)

commission to revise the practice and procedure . The first See also:

• PART

part of the commission's work, consisting of a See also:

• CODE (Lat. codex)

code of See also:

• CIVIL

civil procedure, was reported and enacted in 1848, and by the 1st of See also:

• JANUARY

January 185o the See also:

• COMPLETE

complete code of civil and criminal procedure was completed, and was subsequently enacted by the legislature . The basis of the new See also:

• SYSTEM

system, which was almost entirely Field's work, was the abolition of the existing distinction informs of procedure between suits in law and See also:

• EQUITY (Lat. aequitas)

equity requiring See also:

• SEPARATE

separate actions, and their unification and simplification in a single See also:

• ACTION

action . Eventually the civil code with some changes was adopted in twenty-four states, and the criminal code in eighteen, and the whole formed a basis of the reform in procedure in England and several of her colonies .

In 1857 Field became chairman of a state commission for the reduction into a written and systematic code of the whole See also:

• BODY

body of law of the state, excepting those portions already reported upon by the Commissioners of Practice and Pleadings . In this work he personally prepared almost the whole of the See also:

• POLITICAL

political and civil codes . The codification, which was completed in February 1865, was adopted only in small part by the state, but it has served as a See also:

• MODEL (0. Fr. modelle, mod. modele; It. modello, pattern, mould; from Lat. modus, measure, standard)

model after which most of the law codes of the United States have been constructed . In 1866 he proposed to the See also:

• BRITISH

British See also:

• NATIONAL

National Association for the Promotion of Social See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

Science a revision and codification of the laws of all nations . For an See also:

• INTERNATIONAL, THE

international commission of lawyers he prepared Draft-Outlines of an International Code (1872), the submission of which resulted in the organization of the international Association for the Reform and Codification of the Laws of Nations, of which he became See also:

• PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president . In politics Field was originally an See also:

• ANTI, or CAMPA

anti-See also:

• SLAVERY

slavery Democrat, and he supported See also:

• VAN

Van Buren in the See also:

• FREE

Free See also:

• SOIL

Soil See also:

• CAMPAIGN

campaign of 1848 . He gave his support to the Republican party in 1856 and to the See also:

• LINCOLN
• LINCOLN, ABRAHAM (1809-1865)
• LINCOLN, EARLS OF

Lincoln See also:

• ADMINISTRATION (Lat. administrare, to serve)

administration throughout the Civil See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

War . After 1876, however, he returned to the Democratic party, and from January to See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1877 served out in See also:

• CONGRESS (Lat. congressus, coming together, from congredi; cum, with, and gradus, step)

Congress the unexpired See also:

• TERM

term of See also:

• SMITH
• SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
• SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
• SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
• SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
• SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
• SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
• SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
• SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
• SMITH, G
• SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
• SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
• SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
• SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
• SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
• SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
• SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
• SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
• SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
• SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
• SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
• SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
• SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
• SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
• SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
• SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
• SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
• SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
• SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
• SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
• SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
• SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
• SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
• SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
• SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
• SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
• SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
• SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)

Smith See also:

• ELY
• ELY, RICHARD THEODORE (1854— )

Ely, elected See also:

• MAYOR (Lat. major, greater)
• MAYOR, JOHN EYTON BICKERSTETH (1825– )

mayor of New York City . During his brief Congressional career he delivered six speeches, all of which attracted See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention, introduced a See also:

• BILL

bill in regard to the presidential See also:

• SUCCESSION (Lat. successio, from succedere, to follow after)

succession, and appeared before the Electoral Commission in See also:

• TILDEN, SAMUEL JONES (1814-1886)

Tilden's interest . He died in New York City on the 13th of See also:

• APRIL

April 1894 . Part of his numerous pamphlets and addresses were collected in his Speeches, Arguments and See also:

• MISCELLANEOUS

Miscellaneous Papers (3 vols., 1884-189o) . See also the See also:

• LIFE

Life of David Dudley Field (New York, 1898), by Rev .

See also:

• HENRY
• HENRY (1129-1195)
• HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
• HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
• HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
• HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
• HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
• HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
• HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
• HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
• HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
• HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
• HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
• HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)

Henry See also:

• MARTYN, HENRY (r781-1812)
• MARTYN, JOHN (1699-1768)

Martyn Field .