In:
Law and History Review, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Vol. 21, No. 2 ( 2003), p. 393-410
Abstract:
On March 5, 1824, Henry St. George Tucker was elected by the General Assembly of Virginia to be the judge of the circuit superior court of chancery to sit in Winchester and Clarksburg. Tucker had built up a very successful law practice in Winchester, where he had settled in 1802 upon his admission to the bar. He had also built up a large family; he had six sons and two daughters as well as three children who died young. The elevation to the bench resulted in an increase in professional status, but it also resulted in a substantial decrease in income. In order to remedy this financial development without ethical prejudice to his professional development, he opened a law school. This solution was, no doubt, an obvious one, as his father, the eminent Judge St. George Tucker, had done the same in 1790, when he became the professor of law and police in the College of William and Mary.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0738-2480
,
1939-9022
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publication Date:
2003
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2050177-8
SSG:
2
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