Proceedings of the United States District Court, for Maine District: Commemorating the Services and Character of Hon. Ashur WareS. Berry, printer, 1873 - 24 páginas |
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ablest acknowl admiralty and maritime admiralty law adverse argument announced artificial dignities ASHUR WARE authority beautiful believe bench branch of jurisprudence commercial common law conferred Court of Admiralty Cumberland Bar Association Cumberland County decease decisions derived diligent District Court eminent jurists ence entire profession expression furnished geometry graces of polite Honor infirmities investigation Judge Fox Judge Story Judge Ware judicial labors Justice Story known and valued language life's labors love of knowledge M. M. Butler MAINE DISTRICT manifest maritime law memory mental metaphysical and mathematical mind Nathan Webb natural right naturally open nice distinctions obligations occasion old age opinion prepared oppressions polite letters prejudice presided professional question of admiralty recognized regret religious reports researches resignation sanction and approval second the resolutions seemed sense of justice simplicity of character sophistry taste thought and learning tion United States District virtues and public Ware's wisdom and judgment
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Página 15 - Walker the assurance of our sincerest sympathy in this their great bereavement. " Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be communicated to the family of our deceased associate.
Página 17 - Why weep ye then for him, who, having won The bound of man's appointed years, at last, Life's blessings all enjoyed, life's labors done, Serenely to his final rest has passed; While the soft memory of his virtues, yet, Lingers like twilight hues, when the bright sun is set...
Página 22 - I have very frequently in this manner received from him most valuable assistance which it would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible, to have procured from any other source.
Página 20 - Roman law and the various French writers on commercial and admiralty law, is manifest in almost every one of his opinions, which we now possess. He most thoroughly enjoyed the investigation of questions of admiralty and maritime law, making the most diligent search and examination among the rules and...
Página 10 - ... sentence of law. If local prejudice or patriotic feeling blinded its candor, it rightfully lost its authority. At the time Judge Ware took his place upon the bench, the English precedents in admiralty were rare, and only partially applicable to this country, where we had given our Admiralty Courts a more liberal jurisdiction ; and as to the precedents of other countries and treatises, though the work of men of great genius and...
Página 5 - The proprieties of this occasion will allow me only to speak briefly of the work he has done in the world, and the traits of mental and moral excellence developed in doing it. He has given this description of his dominant mental passions : " I had always a love of knowledge. This I believe was innate and instinctive. It liad its origin in a natural curiosity, and was wholly independent of the consequences that flowed from it.
Página 1 - LATE JUDGE OF SAID COURT. RESOLUTIONS AND ADDRESSES OF MEMBERS OF THE CUMBERLAND BAR, WITH THE REPLY OF JUDGE FOX. PORTLAND : STEPHEN BERRY, PRINTER. 1873.
Página 12 - ... succeed us. We may point to his, on the whole, happy old age, as a fit illustration of the noble language of Cicero : "•Aptissima omnino sunt arma senectutis artes...