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Born March 4, 1863 • San Francisco • California
Died April 20, 1943 (aged 80) • Chicago • Illinois
Notable Works “Treatise on the Anglo-American System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law”
Subjects Of Study jurisprudence • American law • evidence
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