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William Henry Rawle was born on August 31, 1823 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of William and Mary Anna (Tilghman) Rawle, and grandson of William Rawle.
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Exercises at the Ceremony of Unveiling the Statue of John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States, in Front of the Capitol, Washington, May 10, 1
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The Case of the Educated Unemployed: An Address Delivered Before the Harvard Chapter of the Fraternity of the Phi Beta Kappa Society in Sanders Theatre Cambridge June 25th 1885 (Classic Reprint)
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Equity in Pennsylvania: A Lecture Delivered Before the Law Academy of Philadelphia, February 11, 1868 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Equity in Pennsylvania: A Lecture Delivered Before the Law Academy of Philadelphia, February 11, 1868 It is not a little singular that upon the other side of the Atlantic - in that country from which we derived our laws - it has at last been acknow ledged that to administer equity in a court of equity alone, and solely according to the course and practice of chancery, must, in many cases, be equally a denial of justice. Thus, while legis lation has, in the one country, been directed to the administration of equitable principles in a court of equity, it has, in the other, been directed to the administration of those principles, in certain cases, in the courts of common law. And thus both countries have, after a long trial of each system, approached each other, though over widely differ ent roads. It cannot be unprofitable to follow the path which has thus been trod by our ancestors, and by those of our own time. Years before Charles the Second, in granted by his charter to William Penn the Province of Pennsylvania, chancery jurisdiction seems to have been, in some fashion, exercised over it and the other provinces by their governor. 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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The law of contracts / by John William Smith
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Unveiling of the Statue of Chief Justice Marshall, at Washington, May 10th, 1884 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Unveiling of the Statue of Chief Justice Marshall, at Washington, May 10th, 1884 No more suitable public reservation could be found than the ground on which we stand, almost within the shadow of the capitol in which for more than thirty years he held the highest judicial position in the country. It may well be that the even tenour of his judicial life has driven from some minds the story of his brilliant and eventful youth. The same simplicity, the same modesty which marked the Child distinguished the great Chief Justice, but, as a Judge, his life was necessarily one of thought and study, of enforced retirement from much of the busy world,dealing more with results than processes; and the surges of faction and Of passion, the heat of ambition, the thirst of power reached him not in his high judicial station. Yet he had himself been a busy actor on the scenes of life, and if his later days seemed colourless, the story of his earlier years is full of charm. 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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William Henry Rawle
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He received his academic training at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1841.
Career
Entering his father's office upon graduation, he read law for three years and was admitted to the bar in October 1844. He appeared professionally before the Pennsylvania supreme court in 1848, and again in 1850.
True to the characteristics of the family, he pursued his literary work along with his practice and in 1852 published A Practical Treatise on the Law of Covenants for Title, which was several times republished, "each time improved by alterations and additions. "
In 1853 he published the third American edition of Smith on Contracts, and in 1857 the second American edition of Williams on Real Property, "which elevated both those treatises into recognized American textbooks. "
Although of Quaker descent, he did not hesitate to fight for a cause in which he believed and in the second year of the Civil War he enlisted, serving first as a private in the artillery and later in the quartermaster's corps.
After the close of the war he resumed his place in the professional life of Philadelphia, serving from 1865 to 1873 as a vice-provost of the Law Academy and for several years as vice-chancellor of the Law Association, holding that office at the time of his death. He also resumed his literary work following the war but it was generally of a less serious character than before.
In 1868 he published a lecture, Equity in Pennsylvania, appending thereto "The Registrar's Book of Governor Keith's Court of Chancery. " His grandfather, William Rawle, had written a sketch of the Governor which may have suggested a search for the "Registrar's Book" which was thus recovered.
In 1881 he published Some Contrasts in the Growth of Pennsylvania and English Law. Two notable addresses marked his last years: one on Chief Justice Marshall, delivered in 1884 on the occasion of the unveiling of the statue in front of the Capitol at Washington; the other, "The Case of the Educated Unemployed, " delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard University on June 25, 1885.
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Equity in Pennsylvania: A Lecture Delivered Before the Law Academy of Philadelphia, February 11, 1868 (Classic Reprint)
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Unveiling of the Statue of Chief Justice Marshall, at Washington, May 10th, 1884 (Classic Reprint)
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The Case of the Educated Unemployed: An Address Delivered Before the Harvard Chapter of the Fraternity of the Phi Beta Kappa Society in Sanders Theatre Cambridge June 25th 1885 (Classic Reprint)
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The law of contracts / by John William Smith
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Exercises at the Ceremony of Unveiling the Statue of John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States, in Front of the Capitol, Washington, May 10, ... of William Henry Rawle. with the Procee
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Exercises at the Ceremony of Unveiling the Statue of John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States, in Front of the Capitol, Washington, May 10, 1
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Equity in Pennsylvania: A Lecture Delivered Before the Law Academy of Philadelphia, February 11, 1868 (Classic Reprint)
Personality
Although he was of slight build, he was active and energetic and "had a large fund of physical force and power. "
Quotes from others about the person
At the time of his death it was said of him: "He was born and bred and lived in the law. For one hundred and six consecutive years has the honorable office of counsellor at this Bar been continuously and uninterruptedly filled by grandfather, father and son. He commenced his career with a compliment from the Bench of the Circuit Court of the United States for the marked ability which he displayed in his first cause, and he continued that career amidst the plaudits of both Bar and Bench".
Connections
Rawle was married, on September 13, 1849, to Mary Binney Cadwalader, who bore him three children. She died in 1861 and on October 7, 1869, he was married to Emily Cadwalader, who survived him.
