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MARSHALL, JOHN

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MARSHALL, JOHN
(1755 - 1835) Supreme Court Chief Justice and the principal founder of the American system of constitutional law, including the doctrine of judicial review. Fine content A.Ms.S. "J. Marshall" 2pp., small 4to., [n.p., n.d.], offering a legal opinion of an estate case beginning with the significant facts of the case, in which a W. Edwards, deceased, leaves money to his children by his second wife, Lucy Pemberton. Marshall writes in part: "…I am further informed that the money mentioned in the will was paid to Lucy Pemberton them Lucy Edwards as the Guardian of her infant children…". In light of the father's death, the children of Edwards's first marriage apparently demanded a portion of the estate. Marshal notes: "…I consider the question concerning the validity of the payment as being too doubtful for the ex[eutor] to hazard the distribution of the residuary estate on the opinion of any lawyer…I am therefore decidedly of opinion that this is a case which ought to be laid before the chancellor by a friendly suit brot [sic] by the children of the second marriage against the ex[ecutor] & the children of the first. The same suit may procure a sale of the land without additional expense." Small losses from chipping along right margin, not resulting in text loss, light dampstaining, otherwise very good condition.