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Excerpt from Leonard Henderson: Address of Judge Robert W. Winston Presenting the Portrait of Chief Justice Henderson to the Supreme Court of North CarolinaKeeling, from which marriage sprang the jurist, Leonard Henderson. A man's education begins, they say, hun dreds of years before he is born, and hence it is not difficult to trace to their source certain characteristics of the Chief Justice - his originality, his independence, his rugged per sonality. How could he have been otherwise? Samuel Henderson, the grandfather, strong and rugged, had exe cuted his writs, subpoenas, and other processes, a-foot through the forest primeval, traversing a territory from Virginia on the North to Johnston on the South, and from the mountains on the west to Northampton on the east. The father, Richard Henderson, holding the minor office of constable, and fired by a noble ambition, determined to enter the profession of the law. He accordingly read such books as were to be had, and after a short time presented himself for examination to the Chief Justice of the Gen eral Court, upon whose certificate of proficiency the Gov ernor would issue a license to practice law. When this stripling of the law made known to the examiner that he had scarce been sorrowing at the feet of Coke and Littleton twenty months, not to mention twenty years, he was rudely advised to go home and not undertake to stand for his license, to which our undaunted young disciple of Themis stated with promptness and spirit, that he had come not to ask advice or seek a favor, but to demand a right. It is needless to add that the license was worthily won, in the teeth of the most rigid examination. Subsequently, Col onel Richard Henderson attained the highest honor of the profession under the Royal Government, and after the War of the Revolution and the adoption of the Constitu tion of the United States, he was elected one of the first three Justices of the Supreme Court of North Carolina. This ofice he shortly resigned, or refused to accept, the reason' being that he had more ambitious schemes afoot. He had undertaken to establish a new colony in the west.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works
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Liknande böckerNorth Carolina State Courts, including I. Beverly Lake, Sarah Parker, Augustus Summerfield Merrimon, Frederick Nash, Henry Frye, Susie Sharp, Rhoda Billings, William H. Bobbitt, Thomas Ruffin, William Nathan Harrell Smith, Leonard Henderson, Sam Ervin:Paperback 2015
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