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Title: The Statutes of Illinois: Embracing All of the General Laws of the State, in Force December 1, 1857, with Marginal Notes, Showing the Contents of Each Section, and a Reference to the Decisions of the Supreme Court upon the Construction of Each Statute. Author: Samuel H. Treat, Walter B. Scates, Robert S. Blackwell Publisher: Gale, Making of Modern Law Description: The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources, 1620-1926 contains a virtual goldmine of information for researchers of American legal history --- an archive of the published records of the American colonies, documents published by state constitutional conventions, state codes, city charters, law dictionaries, digests and more. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ SourceLibrary: Yale Law Library DocumentID: LPSY0078102 SecondaryDocType: State Codes SourceBibCitation: The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources, 1620-1926 PublicationPlace: United States ImprintFull: Chicago: D. B. Cooke & Co., 1858. ImprintYear: 1858 Collation: 2 v. ; xxviii.; (753-1464) p. ; 26 cm
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Title: The Statutes of Illinois: Embracing All of the General Laws of the State, in Force December 1, 1857, with Marginal Notes, Showing the Contents of Each Section, and a Reference to the Decisions of the Supreme Court upon the Construction of Each Statute. Author: Samuel H. Treat, Walter B. Scates, Robert S. Blackwell, John Dean Caton, O. C. Skinner, Sidney Breese Publisher: Gale, Making of Modern Law Description: The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources, 1620-1926 contains a virtual goldmine of information for researchers of American legal history --- an archive of the published records of the American colonies, documents published by state constitutional conventions, state codes, city charters, law dictionaries, digests and more. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ SourceLibrary: Yale Law Library DocumentID: LPSY0078101 SecondaryDocType: State Codes SourceBibCitation: The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources, 1620-1926 PublicationPlace: United States ImprintFull: Chicago: D.B. Cooke & Co., 1858. ImprintYear: 1858 Collation: 1 v. ; xxviii.; 1,; 752 p. ; 26 cm
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He was born on June 21, 1811 in in Plainfield, Otsego County, N. Y.
Samuel was the son of Samuel and Elsie (Tracy) Treat and a descendant of Matthias Treat, who was a freeman of Wethersfield, Connecticut, in 1657. He spent most of his early life on his father's farm.
Treat studied law at Richfield, N. Y.
He was admitted to the bar in 1834 at Richfield.
Seeking a field for practice, he turned to the West, and journeyed, most of the way on foot, to Springfield, Ill. , where shortly before Stephen T. Logan and Stephen A. Douglas had settled, to be followed within a few years by Abraham Lincoln.
Treat's rise in the practice in Springfield was rapid, and by 1838 he had more cases on the circuit court docket than any other lawyer. In the following year he was appointed judge of the circuit court, which office he resigned in 1841 to accept appointment as justice of the supreme court of Illinois.
He served on the supreme bench for fourteen years, during the last seven as chief justice. In 1855 he resigned to accept the offer tendered him by President Pierce of a federal judgeship for the newly created southern district of Illinois. This position he held for the remainder of his life, a period of thirty-two years.
Treat's opinions are characterized by exact and terse expression, many of them not exceeding a page in length.
With Walter B. Scates and Robert S. Blackwell he compiled and annotated The Statutes of Illinois (2 vols. , 1858).
So closely did he attend to his judicial duties that his private affairs suffered, and at his death they were found in a much neglected condition. When he died on March 27, 1887, his only close relative was a married sister.
(Title: The Statutes of Illinois: Embracing All of the Gen...)
(Title: The Statutes of Illinois: Embracing All of the Gen...)
From early life he was an active and devoted member of the Protestant Episcopal Church; it is said that he never entered a church of another denomination except on public occasions when his presence was necessary.
He was a stanch Democrat throughout life but aside from the performance of his judicial duties took little part in public affairs.
In appearance he was tall and straight and in later life walked with a slow and dignified step, seldom stopping to greet acquaintances. He was, however, always courteous, quiet, and unostentatious. Though he was regarded as eccentric and had but few intimate friends, his integrity, legal ability, and unusual power to grasp and appraise facts were respected by all.
In 1837 he married Ann Bennett of Jacksonville, Ill. , but they had no children.
