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We have transcribed thus largely from the work of the ''Chancellor,'' because it is not in every library, and the discussion of the question, which is new in this court, being the most able and copious we have anywhere met with, cannot fail to be instructive to the student, and acceptable to the practitioner, who will both be disposed to allow that the excellence of the matter atones for the length of the extract.
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We have transcribed thus largely from the work of the ''Chancellor,'' because it is not in every library, and the discussion of the question, which is new in this court, being the most able and copious we have anywhere met with, cannot fail to be instructive to the student, and acceptable to the practitioner, who will both be disposed to allow that the excellence of the matter atones for the length of the extract.<ref>''Carolina Law Repository,'' 2:469.</ref>
 
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Chief Justice
John Louis Taylor

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Chief Justice, Supreme Court of North Carolina
In office
1818-1829
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Presiding Judge, North Carolina Superior Court
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1811-1818
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1798-1818
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Personal details
Born March 1, 1769
  London, UK
Died January 29, 1829 (age 59)
  Raleigh, NC
Resting place Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh, NC
Residence(s) Elmwood, Raleigh, NC
Education
Alma mater College of William & Mary
Profession Lawyer
Politician
Judge
Spouse(s) Julia Rowan
Jane Gaston
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John Louis Taylor (1 March 1769 – 29 January 1829), was the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of North Carolina. Taylor was born in London to parents of Irish descent. He emigrated to America with his older brother, settling in Virginia.[1] Taylor was able to attend the College of William & Mary for a short time, sometime between 1785 and 1788. His education is described as "classical," but the dates place him at the College at the same time George Wythe was teaching law (before 1789). Taylor left without taking a degree and moved to Fayetteville, North Carolina where he studied law on his own, and was admitted to the bar in 1788.[2]

Orr v. Irwin (1816)

In his decision for Orr's Heirs v. Irwin's Heirs and Devisees (2 Law Repos. [4 N. Car.] 465), Chief Justice Taylor quotes at length from one of George Wythe's cases, Farley v. Shippen (1794), citing cases from A General Abridgment of Cases in Equity, Vernon's Reports, Atkyns, and Vesey, and then prefaces his extracts of Wythe:

To these cases may be added a decision made by the late Chancellor Wythe, in Virginia, which may be cited as equal in point of authority, if not superior, to any of the British decisions, from the luminous and conclusive reasoning on which that upright and truly estimable judge founds it.

Clarum & venerabile nomen.[3]

Taylor's extracts of Farley v. Shippen continues for three pages, and he concludes by saying:

We have transcribed thus largely from the work of the Chancellor, because it is not in every library, and the discussion of the question, which is new in this court, being the most able and copious we have anywhere met with, cannot fail to be instructive to the student, and acceptable to the practitioner, who will both be disposed to allow that the excellence of the matter atones for the length of the extract.[4]

Taylor's effusions for Wythe were used in advertisements for the second edition of Wythe's Reports in 1852, by the publisher J. Randolph of Richmond, Virginia.

See also

References

  1. Max R. Williams, "Taylor, John Louis," American National Biography Online, accessed January 30, 2018.
  2. Gertrude S. Carraway, "John Louis Taylor," Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, vol. 6, William S. Powell, ed. (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1996). Available at NCpedia, accessed January 30, 2018.
  3. "Illustrious and venerable name." The Carolina Law Repository, Containing Biographical Sketches of Eminent Judges, Opinions of American and Foreign Jurists, and Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of North-Carolina (Raligh, NC: Joseph Gales, 1816), 2:466.
  4. Carolina Law Repository, 2:469.

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