The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-04-14
DAVID DUDLEY FIELD.
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Had Just Returned from Europe Feeling
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NEW YORK. April 13-David Dudley
Field died at $50 this morning. at No.
% Grammercy Park. He was eightysnins
years old.
Mr. Field arrived from italy early last
Wednesday on the Columbia. He had gons
abroad TO take Christmas dinner with his
only child. Lady Mussrave. and to at
tend the twenty-hrst birthday celebration
CT her eldest son. Dudley Field Mus
grave.
His daughter 10 the widow OF Sir An
thony Musgrave. who was Governor "
Queensland. Australia, when ne dleo'
She is living In East Grfnstead. In Sus-
sex. about twenty miles from London.
He then Travelled about on the continent.
and took the steamer from Genoa for
home.
He has been living at No. p Grammerey
Park since his return, and was thought
TO be In good health for man OF his
age--eghty-nine years.
Mr.. Field was taken III with pneumo-
MIA on Wednesday night, and the END
came this morning. He had expected to
spend the summer among the Berkshire
hills whore he was born. He was en-
gagged Just now In writing his autobios-
raphy. Only last Wednesday he remark
ed:
My one great ambition Is to have my
codes adopted all over the world. They are
written and published. and II is only a.
question of time when they will be ac-'
cepted."
The funeral services will take place at
Calvary Church on Sunday afternoon next
at i3o o'clock. The interment will take
place at Stockbridge. Mass. on Monday.
Mayor Gilroy ordered the flags on
the City Hall TO be placed at half-mgst
to-day.
LONG AND USEFUL CAREER.
David Dudley Field was born In Had
dam. Conn, February 10. 1905. and named
after his father. the distinguished Con-
gregationalist clergyman.
The younger Field graduated at VII
liams College In 1876. studied law Ia New
York, and was admitted to the Bar In
1928. when he became a junior partner
In the firm Of Henry ID. Sedgwick. From
that time until 1885 he was continuously
engaged in the practice Of his profession.
and attained great prominence by his
efforts I'm the cause OF law reform.
In isil Mr.. Field prepared three bills,
which were introduced and rejected by
the Judiciary Committee OF the New York
Legislature. Five years later he wrote
and distributed i'm pamphlet form series
of articles on "rhe Reorganization OF the
Judiciary" In September lS47, he was
appointed commissioner on practice and
pleadings and took part In preparing the
code OF procedure. The commission re-
ported their work TO the Legislature In
four sections. until January. 1850, when
the completed Codes OF Civil and Crimi-
nal Procedure" were submitted. Both
codes were enacted into law. The radical
design Of the new system or civil proce-
dure was TO obliterate the distinction
between the forms OF action and between
legal and equitable suits. This system
has been adopted In Twenty-four States
and Territories. Mr.. Fields criminal
code has been adopted In eighteen States
and Territories.
In 1851 MIR. Field was appointed by the
State OF New York 20 prepare political
code. penal code and civil code. They
were completed I'm 1886. and co-ered the
entire province OF American law. ana
presented 20 the people In compact form
the whole law by which they were gov
erned
I'm 1878. after seven years labor.s Mr..
Field presented to the Social Science
Congress his "Outlines OF AN internd-
tional Code" which attracted the at-
tention OF all jurists, and was translated
into French, Italian, and Chinese.
Mr. Field voted with the Democratic
marty. although opposed to slavery. until
The nomination of Fremont whom ne
supported During the war he actively
defended the administration. For eight
weeks In 1876 he filed In Congress the
unexpired term of Smith Ely, OF New
York. At that time he acted with the
Democrats, and was one of the advo-
Gates before the Electoral Commission.
He also contributed largely to current
literature on political topics.