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John Lansing Wendell

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John Lansing Wendell
Born2 January 1785 Edit this on Wikidata
Died19 December 1861 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 76)
ChildrenAnna Mary Wendell Minturn Edit this on Wikidata
Parent(s)
  • Cornelis Wendell Edit this on Wikidata
  • Annatje Lansing Edit this on Wikidata

John Lansing Wendell (2 January 1785 – 19 December 1861) was an American judge.[1][2]

Biography

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Wendell was born in Albany, New York, on 2 January 1785 and died in Hartford, Connecticut, on 19 December 1861, at 76. He was a descendant of one of the Dutch families of New York. He was educated in Albany and Cambridge, New York, and his family had moved to the latter place about 1795. He entered the law office of his brother, Gerritt Wendell, became a member of the Albany bar, subsequently judged Washington County, and was for many years a reporter for the supreme court of the state of New York.

Publications

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He published Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Judicature of New York, 1828-'41 (26 vols., Albany, 1829-'42), and Digest of Cases, Supreme Court of New York, 1828-'35 (1836); and edited Starkie's Law of Slander (2 vols., Albany, 1843), and Blackstone's Commentaries (4 vols., New York city, 1847).

References

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  1. ^ Blackstone, William (1890). Commentaries on the Laws of England. Bancroft-Whitney.
  2. ^ Blackstone, William (14 July 2015). Commentaries on the Laws of England, Volume 2: A Facsimile of the First Edition of 1765-1769. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-16294-2.

public domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainWilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1891). "Wendell, John Lansing". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.