John Maxcy Zane (March 26, 1863December 6, 1937) was an American
lawyer
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Zane was born in
Springfield, Illinois
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. He was
admitted to the bar
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in 1888 and spent eleven years practicing
law
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in the state of
Utah
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. Zane would spend the remainder of his career in
Chicago
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, teaching briefly at the
Northwestern University School of Law
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and the
University of Chicago
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.
Zane specialized in
patent
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,
trademark
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, and
commercial law
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.
Zane is best known among legal historians for his highly critical review (Michigan Law Review, 13 (1915) 439-465) of George Deiser's edition of the Year Books of Richard II: 12 Richard II (A.D. 1388-1389) (Ames Foundation
arvard Law School 1914). That review was still being cited as an authority in Maurice Holland's edition of Year Books of Richard II: 7 Richard II (A.D. 1383-1384) (Ames Foundation, 1989), ix, n. 2; x; 3 n. 3.
Sources
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John Maxcy Zane, The Multiplication of Laws and Lawyers(1927)
John maxcy zane. (2014). Retrieved 11/21, 2014, from http://oll.libertyfund.org/people/john-maxcy-zane
External links
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Zane. "The Grandeur That Was Rome". The Caxton Club: Chicago, 1927.
1863 births
1937 deaths
Lawyers from Springfield, Illinois
American lawyers
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