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Christopher Columbus Langdell

LANGDELL, Christopher Columbus, lawyer, born in Hillsborough county, New Hampshire, 22 May, 1826. He entered Harvard in 1848, but left in 1849 to become a teacher, and was afterward graduated at the law school in 1853. He then practised in New York city till 1870, when he became professor of jurisprudence, and dean of the law faculty, at Harvard. He was given his degree of A. B., as a member of the class of 1851, in 1870, and that of LL.D. in 1875. Professor Langdell has published "Selection of Cases on the Law of Contracts" (2 parts, Boston, 1870; enlarged ed., 1877); "Cases on Sales" (1872); "Summary of Equity Pleading" (Cambridge, 1877; 2d ed., 1883); and " Cases in Equity Pleading" (printed privately, 1878).

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