See also:

• JOSEPH
• JOSEPH, COMTE DE (1785-1870)
• JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)

JOSEPH See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• JOSEPH STORY (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

STORY (1779-1845)  , See also:

• AMERICAN

American jurist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• MARBLEHEAD

Marblehead, See also:

• MASSACHUSETTS (an Indian name, originally applied to a tribe of Indians)

Massachusetts, on the 18th of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1779 . He graduated at Harvard in 1798, 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 at See also:

• SALEM

Salem, See also:

• MASS (O.E. maesse; Fr. messe; Ger. Messe; Ital. messa; from eccl. Lat. missa)
• MASS, IN

Mass., in 1801, and soon attained See also:

• EMINENCE (Lat. eminentia)

eminence in his profession . He was a member of the Democratic party, and served in the Massachusetts See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

House of Representatives in 1805-18o8, and in 1810-1812 for two terms as See also:

• SPEAKER

speaker, and was a representative in See also:

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

Congress from See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1808 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 18o9 . In See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1811, at the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of See also:

• THIRTY

thirty-two, he became, by See also:

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

President See also:

• MADISON
• MADISON, JAMES (1751–1836)

Madison's See also:

• APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment, an See also:

• ASSOCIATE (Lat. associates, from ad, to, and sociare to join)

associate See also:

• JUSTICE (Lat. justitia)

justice of the See also:

• UNITED

United States Supreme See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

Court . This position he retained. until his See also:

• DEATH

death . Here he found his true See also:

• SPHERE (Gr. vclsa?pa, a ball or globe)

sphere of See also:

• WORK

work . The traditions of the American See also:

• PEOPLE

people, their strong See also:

• PREJUDICE (Lat. praejudicium)

prejudice for the See also:

• LOCAL

local supremacy of the states and against a centralized See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government, had yielded reluctantly to the See also:

• ESTABLISHMENT (0. Fr. establissement, Fr. etablissement, late Norm. Fr. establishement, from O. Fr. establir, Fr. etablir, Lat. stabilire, to make stable)

establishment of the Federal legislative and executive in 1789 . The Federal judiciary had been organized at the same See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time, but had never grasped the full measure of its See also:

• POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers . Soon after See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

Story's appointment the Supreme Court began to bring out into See also:

• PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain view the powers which the constitution had given it over See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state courts and state legislation . The leading See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place in this work belongs to See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

Chief Justice See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John See also:

• MARSHALL
• MARSHALL, ALFRED (1842– )
• MARSHALL, JOHN (1755–1835)
• MARSHALL, JOHN (1818-1891)
• MARSHALL, STEPHEN (c. 1594-1655)

Marshall, but Story has a very large See also:

• SHARE (O. Eng. scearu, chiefly in compounds, e.g. land-scearu, a share of land, from sceran to cut; cf. " shear" )

share in that remarkable See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of decisions and opinions, from 1812 until 1832, by which the work was accomplished . In addition to this he built up the See also:

• DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of See also:

• ADMIRALTY, HIGH COURT OF

admiralty 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 in the United States courts; he devoted much See also:

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

attention to See also:

• EQUITY (Lat. aequitas)

equity See also:

• JURISPRUDENCE (Lat. jurisprudenlia, knowledge of law, from jus, right, and prudentia, from providere, to foresee)
• JURISPRUDENCE, COMPARATIVE

jurisprudence, and rendered invaluable services to the department of patent law . In 1819 he attracted much attention by his vigorous charges to See also:

• GRAND

grand juries, denouncing the slave See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade, and in 182o he was a prominent member of the Massachusetts See also:

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

Convention called to revise the state constitution .

In 1829 he became the first Dane See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

Professor of Law at Harvard University, and continued until his death to hold this position, See also:

• MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)

meeting with remarkable success as a teacher and winning the See also:

• AFFECTION (Lat. ad, and facere, to do something to, sc. a person)

affection of his students, whom he imbued with much of his own See also:

• ENTHUSIASM

enthusiasm . He died at See also:

• CAMBRIDGE
• CAMBRIDGE, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• CAMBRIDGE, RICHARD OWEN (1717-1802)

Cambridge, Mass., on the loth of September 1845 . His See also:

• INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry was unremitting, and, besides attending to his duties as an associate justice and a professor of law, he wrote many reviews and See also:

• MAGAZINE

magazine articles, delivered various orations on public occasions, and published a large number of See also:

• WORKS

works on legal subjects, which won high praise on both sides of the See also:

• ATLANTIC

Atlantic . Among his publications are: Commentaries on the Law of Bailments (1832) ; Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States (3 vols., 1833), a work of profound learning which is still the See also:

• STANDARD
• STANDARD, BATTLE OF THE

standard See also:

• TREATISE

treatise on the subject; Commentaries on the Conflict of See also:

• LAWS

Laws (1834), by many regarded as his ablest work; Commentaries on Equity Jurisprudence (2 vols., 1835—1836) ; Equity Pleadings (1838) ; Law of Agency (1839) ; Law of See also:

• PARTNERSHIP (earlier forms, partener, parcener, from Late Lat. partionarius for partitionarius, from partitio, sharing, pars, part)

Partnership (1841); Law of Bills of See also:

• EXCHANGE

Exchange (1843); and Law of Promissory Notes (1845) . He also edited several standard legal works . His Supreme Court decisions may be found in Cranch's, See also:

• WHEATON, HENRY (1785–1848)

Wheaton's and See also:

• PETERS (or PETER), HUGH (1598–166o)
• PETERS, KARL (1856– )

Peters's Reports, his See also:

• CIRCUIT (Lat. circuitus, from circum, round, and ire, to go)

Circuit Courts decisions in See also:

• MASON, FRANCIS (1799—1874)
• MASON, GEORGE (1725—1792)
• MASON, GEORGE HEMMING (1818–1872)
• MASON, JAMES MURRAY (1798-1871)
• MASON, JOHN (1586-1635)
• MASON, JOHN YOUNG (1799-1859)
• MASON, LOWELL (1792—1872)
• MASON, SIR JOHN (1503–1566)
• MASON, SIR JOSIAH (1795-1881)
• MASON, WILLIAM (1725—1797)

Mason's, See also:

• SUMNER, CHARLES (1811--1874)
• SUMNER, CHARLES RICHARD (1790-1874)
• SUMNER, EDWIN VOSE (1797-1863)
• SUMNER, JOHN BIRD (1780-1862)
• SUMNER, WILLIAM GRAHAM (1840-1910)

Sumner's and Story's Reports . His See also:

• MISCELLANEOUS

Miscellaneous Writings, first published in 1835, appeared in an enlarged edition (2 vols. in 1851) . See The Lifi and Letters of See also:

• JOSEPH
• JOSEPH, COMTE DE (1785-1870)
• JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)

Joseph Story (2 vols., See also:

• BOSTON
• BOSTON, THOMAS (1676-1732)

Boston and See also:

• LONDON

London, 1851), by his son, W . W . Story .