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(r n l´) (KEY) , 1843–1914, English jurist. He was a founder of the school of law at Oxford Univ. From 1899 to his death he sat in Parliament as a ...
(dr ´k ) (KEY) or Dracon (dr ´k n) (KEY) , fl. 621 B.C., Athenian politician and law codifier. Of his codification of Athenian customary law only t...
(l ´ pôlt ts nts´) (KEY) , 1794–1886, German Jewish scholar. His critical research on Judaism became one of the cornerstones of the “science of...
1823–62, American lawyer, b. Jefferson co., Ga.; brother of Howell Cobb. Admitted to the bar in 1842, he edited 20 volumes of the Georgia supreme co...
1829–1914, American physician and author, b. Philadelphia, M.D. Jefferson Medical College, 1850, studied in Paris. A pioneer in the application of p...
1925–66, American comedian, b. Long Island, N.Y., as Leonard Alfred Schneider. Possessed of a cynical, surreal, and intensely comic view of the worl...