Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Revise the General Statutes of the Commonwealth, Part 1
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The General Laws Of Massachusetts: From The Adoption Of The Constitution To February 1822
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The General Laws of Massachusetts, Vol. 1 of 2: From the Adoption of the Constitution, to February, 1822; With the Constitutions of the United States ... Prefixed; Revised and Published, by
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A Summary of the Law and Practice of Real Actions: With an Appendix of Practical Forms (Classic Reprint)
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Asahel Stearns was an American lawyer and a U. S. Representative from Massachusetts.
Background
Asahel was born on June 17, 1774 in Lunenburg, Worcester County, Massachussets, United States. He descended from Isaac Stearns, who became a freeman of Watertown, Massachussets, in 1631.
He was the son of the Hon. Josiah and Mary (Corey) Stearns and a first cousin of Abel Stearns.
Education
After graduating from Harvard College in 1797 he studied law in the office of Timothy Bigelow, of Groton.
Career
Settling after his marriage in that part of Chelmsford which is now Lowell, Massachussets, Stearns practised law there until 1815, when he moved to Charlestown.
In 1813 he had been appointed district attorney for Middlesex County, in which position he served until 1832, except for the period 1815-17, when he represented his district in Congress.
In 1817-18 he served also as representative in the General Court, and in 1830-31 as state senator. By 1817 his character and attainments as a sound and scholarly lawyer had so impressed the community that when in that year the Harvard Law School was established under Chief Justice Isaac Parker Stearns was appointed University Professor of Law.
He accepted the appointment with diffidence; the venture was an experiment, and in practice it amounted to the opening of an office by Stearns in connection with the university, in which he devoted part of his time to delivering lectures, conducting moot courts, and otherwise supervising the work of the students.
Although he was not very successful, he retained the post of professor until the reorganization of the law school in 1829, when under Joseph Story and John Hooker Ashmun its real history as an educational force began. Stearns's professorship was not wholly unproductive, however, for in connection with his teaching he prepared a series of lectures, the substance of which he published in 1824 under the title, A Summary of the Law and Practice of Real Actions.
While Stearns was not successful as a pioneer law professor, his reputation as a sound lawyer continued, and in 1832 he was appointed one of the commissioners under the chairmanship of Charles Jackson to make the first real revision of the Massachusetts statutes. Adopted, with few changes, by the legislature on November 4, 1835, The Revised Statutes of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1836) set a standard for such work and, with the commissioners' notes accompanying their report, remains of great practical value to the courts and to the bar.
Stearns had previously, as joint commissioner with Lemuel Shaw, compiled the fourth and fifth volumes (1823) of Private and Special Statutes of Massachusetts.
His health began to fail about 1836 and although in 1837 he presided over a board of arbitration of an important case from the state of Maine, he gradually retired from active work.
He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 5, 1839.
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Connections
In 1800 he married Frances Wentworth (Whitney) Shepard, daughter of Benjamin Whitney of Hollis, New Hampshire, and widow of Daniel Shepard. They had a son and a daughter who grew to maturity.