, attorney general of the colony, earned the enmity of American patriots, and on 1 Sept. 1774 a terrified eight-year-old Jonathan witnessed the sack by a patriot mob of the family mansion in Cambridge
*, who had heard him argue in court, the governor retorted: “That is true, but I think there are few lawyers in this colony who have as profound a knowledge of Roman law.” Le Vasseur Borgia defended a
, while still engaged in journalism, he was “reading law” and, according to the New-York Daily Tribune, later emerged as “a lawyer of low standing” in Erie County, N.Y
. Doubtless he would find some compensation in the award, in 1849, of a fellowship on one of the college foundations, following his publication the previous year of a treatise on the law of partnership. In
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One of Dumas’s commercial interests during the French régime was the Gulf of St Lawrence fisheries, and it would remain a field of activity after 1759. On 1 April 1756 Pierre
ALLEN, Sir JOHN CAMPBELL, lawyer, author, office holder, politician, militia officer, and judge; b. 1 Oct. 1817 in
studies at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal (1869–76), Pierre-Eugène Lafontaine enrolled in the faculty of law at the Université Laval in Montreal, where in 1879 he obtained an llb
Cornwall. This seems improbable. Strachan’s school was established in the summer of 1803 and on 6 April of that year Macdonell became a law student. In 1862 Chief Justice John Beverley
AO, RG 22, ser.134, 4, 9 Sept. 1817. PAC, MG 11, [CO 42] Q, 322-1: 245–76; RG 5, A1: 16102–26, 18104–5, 19067–68; RG 7, G1, 59: 13–18. William Blackstone, Commentaries on the laws of
then went into law, articling in the office of Jean-Antoine Panet*, a prominent Quebec lawyer. On 17 Jan. 1799, at the age of 21, he
faster or farther. In 1820 he and a brother-in-law, William Parsons, had come to Upper Canada to make their fortunes. Almost immediately Thorne bought property on Yonge Street north of York. Probably at
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The first years of Gonzalve Doutre’s life remain obscure. The youngest son of an illustrious family, he was also the brother-in-law of two distinguished men, Charles
in 1880. He subsequently studied law, in Seaforth, in Toronto, and, after moving to Manitoba in February 1882, in Winnipeg. He was called to the Manitoba bar in November 1882
the journals. He was, however, highly conspicuous in the fifth session (February–March 1816). He moved the formation of a committee to study the militia laws and sponsored a bill to appropriate
), which was largely built on its land, subdivided into lots. However, in 1890 Honoré Mercier’s government had a mining law passed with a clause
stone warehouse in classical style built at MacNab and Merrick streets for Young, Law and Company in 1854. Two years later he was retained by John
a printing business in Lansingburgh (Troy), N.Y. It was probably through his brother-in-law, Davenport Phelps, who in 1794 was living in Newark (Niagara-on-the-Lake), that Gideon learned the
Jabez Upham and Katharine Nichols; d. 1 Nov. 1808 in London, England.
Joshua Upham was both the most typical and the least typical of the
Wright had spent some of his winters in Portland, where he was married in 1875. His wife’s brothers-in-law, Abel D. Wheeler, Otis Sprague, and George Jennings Ainsworth, all developed extensive
Burpe, a carpenter, and Mary Saunders; m. 1 Jan. 1778 Elizabeth Gallishan, and they had seven sons and seven daughters; d. 31 May 1845 in Maugerville, N.B