David Dudley Field
Juriste américain, né à Haddam, Connecticut, le 13 février 1805, mort en ...?
Il était l'ainé des quatre fils du Révérend David Dudley Field, célèbre clergyman et auteur américain[1].
Il étudia et fût diplômé du Williams College en 1825, puis étudia le droit à New York. Il est admis au barreau en 1828, and rapidly won a high position in his profession. Becoming convinced that the common law in America, and particularly in New York state, needed radical changes in respect to the unification and simplification of its procedure, he visited Europe in 1836 and thoroughly investigated the courts, procedure and codes of England, France and other countries, and then applied himself to the task of bringing about in the United States a codification of the common law procedure.
Bibliographie
- Henry M. Field, The Life of David Dudley Field, 1898.
- David Dudley FIELD, Speeches, Arguments and Miscellaneous Papers (1884-90, 3 vols.)
