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tern, that the common law of England had been ac- 

 commodated to the novel circumstances of our people, 

 that the land laws of the State had been reduced to 

 an intelligible code, that our mingled system of law 

 and equity had been developed, and that many of the 

 most important rules of property had been established. 

 To the work of educing such results he was admir- 

 ably adapted by the structure of his mind and its high 

 culture, by his wise and broad common sense, by the 

 comprehensiveness of his views, by his conscientious 

 devotion to his official duties, and by a purity of char- 

 acter that never bore a spot. He was a man after 

 Mr. Binney's own heart. They were kindred spirits. 

 Under his administration of the law, Mr. Binney had 

 grown into all his greatness and fame, and he felt, as 

 few could feel, how great a debt of gratitude the bar 

 and the state owed to the memory of the deceased 

 magistrate. No wonder then, that, when invited by 

 the bar to pronounce an eulogium of the Chief Justice, 

 he poured out from a full heart, and from the stores of 

 an accurate and discriminating observation, the remark- 

 able discourse contained in the i6th volume of Ser- 

 geant & Rawle's Reports. It was not the utterance of 

 respect and affection alone. The discourse exhibits a 

 careful analysis of intellect and character, a just ap- 

 preciation of what gave to the Chief Justice his power 

 and his usefulness, and an admiring estimate of his 

 moral worth. It is a photograph of that great and 

 good man so life-like that it cannot deceive, so deeply 



