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Hace 1 día · Profession. Barrister. politician. judge. Sir Edward Coke ( / kʊk / "cook", formerly / kuːk /; 1 February 1552 – 3 September 1634) [1] was an English barrister, judge, and politician. He is often considered the greatest jurist of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras. [2] Born into an upper-class family, Coke was educated at Trinity College ...
Hace 5 días · —John Jay, February 27, 1792 The Jay family participated significantly in the slave trade, as investors and traders as well as slaveholders. For example, the New York Slavery Records Index records Jay's father and paternal grandfather as investors in at least 11 slave ships that delivered more than 120 slaves to New York between 1717 and 1733. John Jay himself purchased, owned, rented out ...
22 de abr. de 2024 · John Jay was a Founding Father of the United States who served the new nation in both law and diplomacy. He established important judicial precedents as the first chief justice of the United States (1789–95) and negotiated the Jay Treaty of 1794, which settled major grievances with Great Britain
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Hace 3 días · John Marshall (September 24, 1755 – July 6, 1835) was an American statesman, lawyer, and Founding Father who served as the fourth chief justice of the United States from 1801 until his death in 1835. He remains the longest-serving chief justice and fourth-longest serving justice in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court, and is widely regarded ...
23 de abr. de 2024 · Sir William Jones (born Sept. 28, 1746, London—died April 27, 1794, Calcutta) was a British Orientalist and jurist who did much to encourage interest in Oriental studies in the West. Of Welsh parentage, he studied at Harrow and University College, Oxford (1764–68), and learned Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, and Persian.
16 de abr. de 2024 · George Wythe (born 1726, Elizabeth City county, Virginia [U.S.]—died June 8, 1806, Richmond, Virginia, U.S.) was an American jurist who was one of the first judges in the United States to state the principle that a court can invalidate a law considered to be unconstitutional.
19 de abr. de 2024 · William Jay Smith (born April 22, 1918, Winnfield, Louisiana, U.S.—died August 18, 2015, Pittsfield, Massachusetts) was an American lyric poet who was known for his precision and craftsmanship and for his variety of subjects and styles.
