Personal Liberty And Martial Law: A Review Of Some Pamphlets Of The Day (1862)
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Historia Placitorum Coronae. the History of the Pleas of the Crown; Volume 1
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Edward Ingersoll was an American lawyer and author. Besides, as an editor he worked on Hale, Pleas of the Crown, Addison on Contracts and Saunders on Uses and Trusts.
Background
Edward was born on April 2, 1817 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. He was the son of Mary Wilcocks and politician and writer Charles Jared Ingersoll. He came of a family distinguished in American politics, being the great-grandson of Jared Ingersoll, Loyalist, the grandson of Jared Ingersoll, Jr.
Education
Ingersoll entered the University of Pennsylvania at the age of fourteen and was graduated with the class of 1835.
Career
In 1838 Edward was admitted to the practice of law, and though at no time did he engage very actively in practice.
A recognized exponent of radical democracy, he published in 1849 The History and Law of the Writ of Habeas Corpus, with an Essay on the Law of Grand Juries, followed in 1862 by Personal Liberty and Martial Law. His strong convictions caused him some mortification, when, on April 13, 1865, on the occasion of celebrating Jefferson's birthday in New York City, in answer to a toast, he made a speech criticizing certain war measures of the federal government.
During the early years of the war he had been arrested for his use of "free speech, " but he had been discharged on habeas corpus proceedings. This time he was attacked by the Philadelphia press, and on April 27, 1865, while repulsing a mob, he was seized and imprisoned. The next day he was released on bail.
Subsequent to the war, he devoted himself to literature, without, however, producing anything of importance. In the field of law he published The History of the Pleas of the Crown (1847), an edition of the work of Sir Matthew Kent; An Essay on Uses and Trusts (1855), an annotated edition of the work of F. W. Sanders; and A Treatise on the Law of Contracts (1857), from the original by C. G. Addison.
He died at "Fernhill, " Germantown, Pennsylvania, in his seventy-sixth year.