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SIMON GREENLEAF (1783-1853)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 548 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIMON See also:GREENLEAF (1783-1853)  , See also:American jurist, was See also:born at See also:Newburyport, See also:Massachusetts, on the 5th of See also:December 1783 . When a See also:child he was taken by his See also:father to See also:Maine, where he studied See also:law, and in 18o6 began to practise at See also:Standish . He soon removed to See also:Gray, where he practised for twelve years, and in 1818 removed to See also:Portland . He was reporter of the supreme See also:court of Maine from 1820 to 1832, and published nine volumes of Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Maine (1822-1835) . In 1833 he became Royall See also:professor, and in 1846 succeeded See also:Judge See also:Joseph See also:Story as Dane professor of law in Harvard University; in 1848 he retired from his active duties, and became professor See also:emeritus . After being for many years See also:president of the Massachusetts See also:Bible Society, he died at See also:Cambridge, See also:Mass on the 6th of See also:October 1853 . See also:Greenleaf's See also:principal See also:work is a See also:Treatise on the Law of See also:Evidence (3 vols., 1842-1853) . He also published A Full Collection of Cases Overruled, Denied, Doubted, or Limited in their Application, taken from American and See also:English Reports (1821), and Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists by the Rules of Evidence administered in the Courts of See also:Justice, with an See also:account of the Trial of Jesus (1846; See also:London, 1847) . He revised for the American courts See also:William Cruise's See also:Digest of See also:Laws respecting Real See also:Property (3 vols., 1849-1850) .

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