Bücher von Lucilius A Emery

Lucilius A. Emery (July 27, 1840 - August 26, 1920), of Portland, Maine, was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court from October 5, 1883 to July 27, 1911. Born in Carmel, Maine, Emery graduated from Bowdoin College in 1861 and read law to gain admission to the bar in 1863, at which time he settled in Ellsworth, Maine. He was the elected to the Maine Senate in 1874 and 1875, and then as Maine Attorney General from 1876 to 1879. On October 5, 1883, Governor Frederick Robie appointed Emery as an Associate Justice. He became Chief Justice on December 14, 1906, and serving in that capacity until his resignation on July 27, 1911.

The addresses contained in this book were delivered in the William L. Storrs Lecture Series before the Law School of Yale University.LUCILIUS A. EMERY was a Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Court and contributed to The Yale Law Journal a thought-provoking article on the tendency, observable in enough of our States to justify calling it general, to change the working of our jury system by transferring to the jurymen a part of the power entrusted under the English common law to the Judge.