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Tapping Reeve was born to a Presbyterian minister in Brookhaven, New York, on Long Island, to Reverend Abner Reeve (1708–1798) and Deborah Topping Reeve (1717–1759).
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Excerpt from The Law of Baron and Femme, of Parent and Child, Guardian and Ward, Master and Servant, and of the Powers of Courts of Chancery: With an Essay on the Terms Heir, Heirs, and Heirs of the Body Tre object of the Author of the following Chapters is, to bring into one connected view, the law on the various subjects respecting which they'treat which is found in the books, scattered through a great variety of Reports and Elementary Treatises. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Tapping Reeve was born to a Presbyterian minister in Brookhaven, New York, on Long Island, to Reverend Abner Reeve (1708–1798) and Deborah Topping Reeve (1717–1759).
He entered the College of New Jersey (now Princeton) at 15 and graduated first in his class in 1763.
In 1771 Reeve left his post as tutor at Princeton to read law in the traditional way in a judge's office in Hartford, Connecticut In a year he was admitted to the bar, and he moved to the remote village of Litchfield, Connecticut, to begin his practice. As his reputation grew, young prospective lawyers began to seek Reeve out to supervise their legal preparation.
But he soon went beyond the usual procedures (which gave the clerks little or no overview in their reading and only a perfunctory knowledge of established legal forms) to introduce them to the substantive principles and concepts of law. In the absence of accessible textbooks and reports, he inaugurated in 1782 a series of formal and connected lectures which embraced the whole field of jurisprudence.
Two years later, with students overflowing home and office, he erected a small frame building near his home and assembled his law library there. In this school he met his classes of from 10 to 20 men. On Saturdays the students were examined on the week's lectures, and Monday evenings were reserved for moot court sessions.
For 14 years Reeve conducted the school alone, but when, in 1798, he was appointed a judge of the superior court, James Gould began to share the teaching duties.
Before the school closed in 1833 because of increased competition from New York, New Haven, and Boston, Reeve and Gould graduated more than 1, 000 lawyers.
The roster of names reads like a "Who's Who in Nineteenth-century America, " including 2 United States vice presidents, 3 Supreme Court justices, 6 Cabinet members, and 116 congressmen. After 16 years on the state supreme court Reeve was elevated in 1814 to chief justice.
He retired the next year, at the age of 70. He published The Law of Baron and Femme (1816), a legal analysis of domestic relations that went into four editions.
Financially straitened and flagging with age, he withdrew from his school partnership in September 1820 and died in Litchfield on December 13, 1823.
In 1784, he opened the Litchfield Law School in Litchfield, Connecticut, the first school to offer a comprehensive legal curriculum in the United States.
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Quotations: The notes from their lectures, as the school catalog noted in 1828, "constitute books of reference, the great advantage of which must be apparent to every one of the slightest acquaintance with the . .. Law. "
After educating Sally Burr, Reeve developed a relationship with her. He asked her guardian for her hand in marriage but was refused due to their age difference and Reeve's lack of steady employment.
In 1771, at the same time he moved to Hartford, Connecticut, he again asked to marry Sally and was given permission. Eventually, the couple wed on June 4, 1771. Together, they had: Aaron Burr Reeve (1780–1809), who married Annabella Sheldon in 1808. They settled in Troy, had a son, Tapping Burr Reeve (1809-1829), who died in Litchfield while a student at Yale.
Annabella Reeve later remarried, and her husband David T. Burr and she relocated to Richmond, Virginia.
He married again in 1798 or 1799, to Elizabeth "Betsy" Thompson (1774-1842). While Aaron Burr Reeve was Tapping's only child, Amelia Ogden (1779-1866), has been described as "another inmate of the family. .. an orphan who held the place of a daughter in the household" by Lyman Beecher's daughter.
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