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that court. In 1868, he was elected an of the cause, and ever avoiding the unnecessary Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of discussion of collateral subjects, all are aware. Pennsylvania, and on Jan. 1, 1880, he became Hut his chief excellence was the ability to single the Chief Justice of the State. On Jan. 1, out the controlling principles upon which an im 1883, he retired from the bench; and he died portant cause depended, to carry them onward to in May, 1883. It is unnecessary to remind their utmost correct limitations; and in thus gen eralizing from established views he was able to students of the law, or lawyers, of his " Lec penetrate new and higher regions of truth, and to tures Introductory to the Study of Law;" of draw from them the aptest and most forcible argu his essay upon " Professional Ethics," the ments in support of his final results. Where mere

rules laid down in technical learning suf which, as Mr. George ficed, he could always W. Biddle has said, bring it to the proper "breathe the loftiest determination of the case tone and the highest in hand. But where a great public question, moral principle; " or such as some of those of his annotations of already referred to, came Blackstone, of Starkie before him, his treat on Evidence, or of ment of it was of a Byles on Bills. In broader and more mas the eloquent words culine kind. If we look of Mr. Hampton L. for a characteristic which Carson (an alumnus of distinguished him espe the school and a dis cially from other lawyers, tinguished member of we may, I think, find it the Philadelphia Bar), in the entire freedom as Judge Sharswood's from the misleading tech "services to the cause nical analogies of the law as applied to such ques of professional educa tions. He seems never tion have become the to have been led to ap most precious portion ply to public or constitu of the history of the tional questions the nar school, it cannot be row rules by which we inappropriate to ac are obliged to decide GEORGE SHARSWOOD. knowledge the heavy cases under powers, or obligations due to him of contingent remainders, or those arising under who bore aloft alone the weight of a great our artificial rules of property; nor was he em enterprise, and by courage, energy, enthusi barrassed by technical rules relating purely to the asm, industry, and learning established upon form of action. His mind was not only vigorous, the foundations of success an institution that but broad. Legal common-sense was as strong an had twice failed in distinguished hands." The attribute of him as ordinary common-sense is of characteristics of Judge Sharswood's judicial our most successful business men. Perhaps this character can best be stated in the words of is to be ascribed to his liberal education, his wide Mr. George W. Biddle, the Chancellor of the range of studies, history, politics, economic science. Law Association of Philadelphia, who has And he was a student all his life; his education, said, — so far as subjects kindred to jurisprudence were "That he was learned, careful in laying down concerned, being kept up to the very last. He was therefore able to rise readily to the greatness of the his premises, accurate in deducing his conclu sions, cautious in confining them to the exigencies occasion, and. flinging aside the technical trammels