Joseph Story, Salem, Massachusetts, to John Marshall, Richmond, Virginia, 1819
- Containers:
- Box 2, Folder 6
- Scope and content:
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Discusses the legal principles of hypothecation and maritime law as Joseph Story sees them in regards to a case in New York, and concludes that the chief-question is "whether the ports of the different states are to be deemed foreign ports in respect to the rights of the hypothecation or of implied lien"; in Story's district, as well as in South Carolina, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New York, they are; Story "is open to argument and will follow in a better path. And as the advancement of the law, and not merely of our private opinions should be the great ambition of all judges, I am quite content to yield to the judgement of others."
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