Simon Greenleaf

Simon Greenleaf (December 5, 1783 – October 6, 1853), American jurist, was born at Newburyport, Massachusetts.

证据法学著作
Simon Greenleaf, The Testimony of the Evangelists Examined by The Rules of Evidence Administered in Courts of Justice, reprint of the 1874 edition, (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1984). ISBN 0-8010-3803-0

生平
Greenleaf's family traces its ancestry back to Edmund Greenleaf who lived in Ipswich, Suffolk in England and then emigrated and settled in Newburyport, Massachusetts. The Greenleaf family flourished in this part of Massachusetts for almost one hundred fifty years prior to Simon's birth in 1783. His father was Moses Greenleaf and he married Lydia Parsons the daughter of Rev. Jonathan Parsons of Newburyport. His older brother, Moses Greenleaf (1777-1834), became a distinguished surveyor and map-maker in the state of Maine.

In 1790 Simon's parents moved to New Gloucester in Maine but left him in the care of his grandfather, the Hon. Jonathan Greenleaf, in Newburyport where he was educated at the Latin school and studied the Greco-Roman classics. When he turned sixteen years old he then rejoined his parents in New Gloucester. In 1801 he joined the law office of Ezekiel Whitman (the later Chief Justice of Maine) and in 1806 was admitted to the Cumberland County bar as a legal practitioner. On September 18, 1806 he married Hannah Kingman.

He then opened a legal practice at Standish, but six months afterwards relocated to Gray, where he practised for twelve years, and in 1818 removed to Portland. Greenleaf's political preferences were aligned with the Federalist party, and in 1816 he was an unsuccessful candidate for that party in Cumberland County for the Senate. He was reporter of the Supreme Court of Maine from 1820 to 1832, and published nine volumes of Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Maine (1820-1832).

He was awarded the honorary Doctor of Laws degree by Harvard in 1834, received the same honor from Amherst in 1845, and again from the University of Alabama in 1852.

法学著作

Greenleaf's principal work of legal scholarship is a Treatise on the Law of Evidence (3 vols., 1842-1853), and which remained a standard textbook in American law throughout the Nineteenth century. He also published A Full Collection of Cases Overruled, Denied, Doubted, or Limited in their Application, taken from American and English Reports (1821). He prepared and published Reports of Cases Argued and Determined by the Supreme Judicial Court of the State of Maine in nine volumes (1820-1832). He revised for the American courts William Cruise's Digest of Laws respecting Real Property (3 vols., 1849-1850). Greenleaf was also the author of A Brief Inquiry into the Origin and Principles of Free Masonry (1820), and wrote a memoir of the life of his colleague Joseph Story - A Discourse Commemorative of the Life and Character of the Hon. Joseph Story (1845).

Mentioned by actor Corbin Bernsen, playing Mitch Kendrick, in Judgment (a.k.a. Apocalypse IV)(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0257408/).

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