A Collection of Overruled, Denied, and Doubted Decisions and Dicta: Both American and English (Classic Reprint)
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Many circumstances combine to multiply in modern times the number of overruled cases, beyond the preportion of the increased number of reports; and this renders it more than ever indispensable to the practitioner to be able readily to ascertain of any given decision whether or not it has been overruled, denied, or doubted. To this end is the present volume respectfully submitted to the profession.
It is based upon the collection of overruled cases published by Professor Greenleaf, and comprises all the cases to be found in his work and upwards of fifteen hundred cases added by the pres ent compiler.
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A Treatise on the Law of Evidence, Vol. 3 of 3 (Classic Reprint)
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Ryan 25 v.sankey 103 v. Scott 39a v. Searle 103, 110 v Sellers 21 v. Shattuck 49 v. Shaw 17 v. Shea v. Shedd 89, 90, 90a v. Smith 14, 46, 90a, 106, 113, 184.
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A Treatise on the Law of Evidence, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)
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A work which we regard as admirable in method, clear in statement. And evincing great research, and great learning. We regard it as altogether the best work on t e subject that has ever been written, and in many respects the best legal treatise of which we have any knowledge; and we desire to add, that it is written in a style so clear and simple, that persons out of the profession will find it both useful and interesting. Boston Daily Advertiser.
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The Testimony of the Evangelists, Examined by the Rules of Evidence Administered in Courts of Justice
(Reprint of the sole edition. Originally published: New Yo...)
Reprint of the sole edition. Originally published: New York: James Cockcroft & Company, 1874. xxiii, 613 pp. The Testimony of the Evangelists combines Greenleaf s juridical expertise and profound Christian faith. A fascinating work grounded in an impressive command of sources, it is a landmark in the development of juridical apologetics, the defense of faith through legal reasoning.
An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists By the Rules of Evidence Administered in Courts of Justice with Readers Guide
(Simon Greenleaf was a New England lawyer and professor of...)
Simon Greenleaf was a New England lawyer and professor of law at Harvard University and a Christian. This classic text examines the testimony of the four Gospels as if they were presented in a court of law. Greenleaf takes aim at skeptics of his day but his analysis and insight is often relevant in our own time. At issue then, as now, concerns the standards of evidence that Christianity should be judged by? How does Christianity itself present itself to be judged? Should we hold Christianity's truth claims to a higher standard than we use to sentence people to death? Objections to the Christian faith along these lines were not invented by modern atheists. They were around in the 1800s for Greenleaf to tackle- and refute.
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The Testimony of the Evangelists: The Gospels Examined by the Rules of Evidence
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Applying the rules of evidence administered in courts of justice, Greenleaf demonstrates the validity of the Gospels as trustworthy and authoritative historical accounts in this time-honored work.
Simon Greenleaf was an American lawyer, author and jurist.
Background
Simon Greenleaf, brother of Moses Greenleaf, was born on December 5, 1783 at Newburyport, Massschusetts, with which place his family had been connected for nearly a hundred and fifty years, his American ancestor, Edmund Greenleaf, originally of Ipswich, Suffolk, England, having settled there in 1635. His father, Moses Greenleaf, married Lydia, daughter of Rev. Jonathan Parsons of Newburyport, and resided in that town.
Education
In 1790, when Simon was seven years old, his parents moved to New Gloucester, Maine, leaving him with his grandfather, Jonathan Parsons, to enjoy the superior educational facilities which Newburyport then provided. He attended the Latin School there, obtaining a thorough classical training, and when he was sixteen rejoined his parents at New Gloucester. In 1801 he entered the law office of Ezekiel Whitman, later chief justice of Maine.
Career
In June 1806 Simon was admitted to the Cumberland County bar. He had commenced practise in Standish, a short distance from Portland, but six months later removed to Gray, where, being the only lawyer in the neighborhood, he enjoyed an extensive connection.
The times, however, were not litigious and for a period of twelve years he devoted his leisure to an intensive study of the common law, reading widely and deeply, and obtaining a familiarity with the source material which no other practitioner of his time possessed. In 1818 he removed to Portland, whither his reputation for learning had preceded him, and at once took his place among the leaders of the bar there.
On the establishment of the supreme judicial court, June 24, 1820, following the admission of Maine as a state, he was appointed reporter. As such he prepared and published Reports of Cases Argued and Determined by the Supreme Judicial Court of the State of Maine. Notable for their clear yet concise captions and admirable abstracts of the arguments, their accuracy has never been impugned, and they have always been highly valued by the profession. A second edition was called for shortly prior to Greenleaf’s death. For some years before becoming reporter he had been engaged in compiling A Collection of Cases Overruled, Denied, Doubted or Limited in their Application, which he published in 1821. Concurrently with his court duties he continued in practise, being mainly engaged in counsel work, where his attractive personality, profound legal knowledge, and compelling logic made him particularly effective.
His resignation in 1832 was prompted by a realization that his official duties prevented his giving adequate attention to his increasing retainers.
In 1833, Justice Joseph Story, Dane Professor of Law at Harvard, offered Greenleaf the Royall Professorship of Law at that institution, which had become vacant through the death of Ashmun, and he accepted. Removing to Cambridge, he was as sociated with Story in the law school for thirteen years, and on the death of the latter, succeeded him in the Dane Professorship. His health, however, gradually became seriously impaired, and he was compelled to resign in 1848, whereupon he was appointed emeritus professor.
To the efforts of Story and Greenleaf is to be ascribed the rise of the Harvard Law School to its eminent position among the legal schools of the United States. In temperament and intellect the two professors were essentially unlike. Story was quick, brilliant, picturesque; Greenleaf was deliberate, thorough, impressive. The former aroused enthusiasm, the latter evoked a desire for learning. “Story prepared the soil, and Greenleaf sowed the seed”. Each was the antithesis and yet the complement of the other, and under their dual leadership, the school achieved a nation-wide reputation. As a lecturer, Greenleaf was systematic, meticulously exact, and practical, vouchsafing little indication of the wealth of learning from which his lectures were constructed.
Giving freely of his time to the elucidation of their individual difficulties and assisting in their activities, he enjoyed the respect and confidence of his pupils in an extraordinary degree. While engaged in tutorial work he prepared what was originally intended as a textbook on evidence, published in 1842 as A Treatise on the Law of Evidence. The profession at once hailed it as the ablest extant work on the subject, distinguished alike for its deep learning, clarity of style, and practical utility.
He added a second volume in 1846, and a third in 1853.
In its completed form it came to be regarded as the foremost American authority, and passed through numerous editions under successive editors. After his retirement, Greenleaf’s health improved, and in addition to completing his work on evidence he published Cruise’s Digest of the Law of Real Property, Revised and Abridged for the Use of American Students, which in the United States entirely superseded the English original.
Allied, politically, with the Federalist party, he was in 1816 an unsuccessful candidate in Cumberland County for the Massachusetts Senate, but was elected in 1820 to represent Portland in the first Maine legislature, where he took a leading part in framing the initial legislation of the new state. When his term expired he retired and thereafter had neither the time nor the inclination to participate actively in public life.
In addition to the books already mentioned he was the author of A Brief Inquiry into the Origin and Principles of Free Masonry (1820); “A Brief Memoir of the Life and Character of the Hon. Prentiss Mellen, LL. D. , late Chief Justice of Maine”; and Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists by the Rules of Evidence Administered in Courts of Justice, with an Account of the Trial of Jesus (1846).
He was a frequent contributor to periodicals, several of his articles being republished in pamphlet form, as were also his inaugural discourse as Royall Professor of Law in Harvard University (1834) and A Discourse Commemorative of the Life and Character of the Hon. Joseph Story (1845).
Several evangelical books and websites claim that Greenleaf was an atheist who set out to disprove the Gospels, but instead the evidence for Jesus' resurrection convinced him to become a Christian. Greenleaf was a devout evangelical Episcopalian, and no evidence exists that he ever doubted the truth of the Gospels.
Membership
Greenleaf was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1820.
Connections
On September 18, 1806 he married Hannah Kingman, daughter of Capt. Ezra Kingman of East Bridgewater, Massschusetts.