SPEECHES, ARGUMENTS, AND MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS OF DAVID DUDLEY FIELD. EDITED BY A. P. SPRAGUE. VOLUME II. NEW YORK: D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, 1, 3, AND 5 BOND STREET. 1884. Reprinted by William S. Hein & Co., Inc. COPYRIGHT, 1884, BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY. CLASSICS IN LEGAL HISTORY VOLUME TEN A Series of Reprints General Editors ROY M. MERSKY J. MYRON JACOBSTEIN Law Librarian Stanford University DAVID DUDLEY FIELD David Dudley Field was bom in 1805 in Connecticut and died in New York City in 1894, having achieved in his lifetime the honor of being known as "The Father of United States legal reform."' He spent his whole life campaigning to bring about codification of common-law procedure in New York State. While the codification was never completely adopted in New York, the codes that he worked on were extensively adopted in many other States and other countries. His arguments for codifying common-law procedure were published in a pamphlet entitled The Reorganization of the Judiciary. This pamphlet was instrumental in persuading the New York Constitutional Convention of 1847 to favorably consider a codification of the law. In an 1894 article written on the occasion of Field's death, the author admiringly stated that "his work will never be forgotten because it forms a conspicuous part of the progress of man himself toward that intelligent regulation of life which is the object of all law." The author goes on to say that "the admirable qualifications of Mr. Field for the great tasks which he accomplished would not have been complete without his advanc ed conception of the law itself. He was not a 'case lawyer'. He appeared to survey law in the direct relation which the whole and each part bears to public welfare." 2. Roy M. Mersky 1. Austin Abbott, "The Work of David Dudley Field," Review of Reviews, Vol. 9, no. 5, May 1894, p. 550. 2. Ibid. THE PUBLISHED WORKS OF DAVID DUDLEY FIELD Address of David Dudley Field...President of the (American Bar Association at the Twelfth Annual Meeting, at Chicago, August 28, 1889. Philadelphia: Dando Printing and Publishing Co., 1889. 15 p. Address of David Dudley Field...President of the (American Bar) Association at the Twelfth Annual Meeting, at Chicago, August 28, 1889. Philadelphia: Dando Printing and Publishing Co., 1889. 88 p. A summary of the noteworthy changes in statute law on points of general interest made in the several States and by Congress. Amelioration of the Laws of War Required by Modern Civilization. Shanklin: Printed at the "Isle of Wright Guardian'' Office, 1887? 12 p. Memoir presented to the Institute of International Law, in session at Heidelberg, September, 1887. |