FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY
\fˈiːld], \fˈiːld], \f_ˈiː_l_d]\
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(1805-1894), was prominent in law reform movements. From 1847 to 1850 he was a commissioner to prepare "Codes of Civil and Criminal Procedure," now in several instances adopted; and from 1857 to 1865 was chairman of a New York commission to prepare political, penal and civil codes. In 1873 he published "Outlines of an International Code," which has attracted wide attention.
By John Franklin Jameson
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