See also:FRANCOIS See also:XAVIER See also:MARTIN (1762-1846)
, See also:American jurist and author, was See also:born in See also:Marseilles, See also:France, on the 17th of See also:March 1762, of Provencal descent
.
In 1780 he went to See also:Martinique, and before the See also:close of the American See also:war of See also:Independence went to See also:North Carolina, where (in New See also:Bern) he taught See also:French and learnt See also:English, and set up as a printer
.
He studied See also:law, and was admitted to the North Carolina ,See also:bar. in 1789
.
He published various legal books, and edited Acts of the North Carolina See also:Assembly from 1715 to r8o3 (2nd ed., 1809)
.
He was a member of the See also:lower See also:house of the See also:General Assembly in 1806-1807
.
In 1809 he was commissioned a See also:judge of the See also:superior See also:court of the territory of See also:Mississippi, and in March 1810 became judge of the superior court of the territory of See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans
.
Here the law was in a chaotic See also:condition, what with French law before O'Reilly's See also:rule, then a See also:Spanish See also:code, and in 1808 the See also:Digest of the See also:Civil See also:Laws, an See also:adaptation by See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
Brown and See also:Moreau Lislet of the code of See also:Napoleon, which repealed the Spanish fueros, partidas, recopilationes and laws of the Indies only as they conflicted with its provisions
.
See also:- MARTIN (Martinus)
- MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
- MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
- MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
- MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
- MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
- MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
- MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
- MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
- MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
- MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)
Martin published in 1811 and 1813 reports of cases decided by the superior court of the territory of Orleans
.
For two years from See also:February 1813 Martin was See also:attorney-general of the newly established See also:state of See also:Louisiana, and then until March 1846 was a judge and (from 1836 to 1846) presiding judge of the supreme court of the state
.
For the See also:period until 183o he published reports of the decisions of the supreme court; and in 1816 he published two volumes, one French and one English, of A General Digest of tke Acts of Legislatures of the See also:Late Territory of Orleans and of the State of Louisiana
.
He won the name of the " See also:father of Louisiana See also:jurisprudence " and his See also:work was of See also:great assistance to See also:Edward See also:Livingston, See also:Pierre Derbigny and Moreau Lislet in the Louisiana codification of 1821-1826
.
Martin's eyesight had begun to fail when he was seventy, and after 1836 he could no longer write opinions with his own See also:hand.l He died in New Orleans on the 11th of See also:December 1846
.
Martin translated See also:Robert J
.
See also:Pothier On Obligations (1802), and wrote The See also:History of Louisiana from the Earliest Period (2 vols
.
1827–1829) and The History of North Carolina (2 vols., 1829)
.
There
His holographic will in favour of his See also:brother (written in 1844 and devising See also:property See also:worth nearly $400,000) was unsuccessfully contested by the statevof Louisiana on the ground that the will was void as being a legal and See also:physical impossibility, or as being an attempted See also:fraud on the state, as under it the state would not receive a to % tax if the property went to the heirs of Martin (as intestate) in France.is a memoir by 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 A
.
Bullard in See also:part ii. of B
.
F
.
French's See also:Historical Collections of Louisiana (See also:Philadelphia, 1850), and one by W
.
W
.
See also:Howe in See also:John F
.
Condon's edition of Martin's History of Louisiana (New Orleans, 1882)
.
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