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This 850 page volume provides sketches of judges and lawyers in Indiana both present (as of publication in 1895) and past, including over 250 portraits. Biographical sketches are in the second section, and make up most of the book. The first section, entitled “Historical Sketches of the Bench and Bar” contains the following chapters and topics (some as brief as one page), written by W. W. Thornton and others:
-United States Circuit Court for the District of Indiana
-United States District Court for the District of Indiana
-The General Court of the Northwest Territory
-The General Court of Indiana Territory
-Sketch of the Old Supreme Court
-The New Supreme Court of Indiana
-Supreme Court Commissioners
-Sketches of the Old Indiana Supreme Court Bar
-The Appellate Court
-The Circuit Courts
-Courts of Common Pleas
-Superior Court
-Courts of Impeachment
-Old Chancery Court
-Probate and Orphans’ Court
-Criminal Courts
-Courts of Conciliation
-Masters in Chancery and Master and Probate Commissioners
-Mayor’s, Police and City Courts
-Court of Claims
-Justices of the Peace
-Board of County Commissioners
-Session Laws and Statutes of the Northwest and Indiana Territory and the State of Indiana
-Law Writers of Indiana
-Attorneys at Law
-When the Lawyers Rode the Circuit
-The Indianapolis Bar of 1839
-A Justice’s Trial
-Right of Trial by Jury
-State Law Library
-Law Schools of Indiana
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