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Excerpt from Proceedings of the Bench and Bar of the Circuit Court of the United States: District of Massachusetts, Upon the Decease of Hon. John Lowell Possessing in a very high degree a natural aptitude and taste for the investigation and determination of legal problems, each year of his judicial service found him better fitted for his work and holding a higher place in the public respect and confidence. Thor oughly independent in character, his sole endeavor as a judge was to discharge all his duty with scrupulous fidelity, to hear with attention, to examine and weigh with absolute fairness the cases submitted to him, and to decide them correctly, employing and interpreting the technical rules of the law to aid, not to defeat, the ends of justice. His opinions were clear, strong, terse, and to the point, and were not infrequently illumined by flashes of keen, but always kindly, wit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.