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H. Gerald Chapin

(1875-1920)
New York

Professor of Law, Fordham University; Editor of the American Lawyer (Chapin assumed the editorship of the American Lawyer in 1899)

H. Gerald Chapin was one of the original members of the faculty of the Fordham Law School which was established in 1905.

[See Robert M. Hanlon, Jr., A History of Fordham Law School, 49 Fordham L. Rev. xvii, xviii (1980)]

Poems

H. Gerald Chapin, "A Rubáiyát of the Courts," 15 The Green Bag 9 (1903)

______________, "The 'Reform' Judge," 16 The Green Bag 224-225 (1904)

______________, "The 'Reform' Judge," in Perceival E. Jackson (ed.), Justice and the Law: An Anthology of American Legal Poetry and Verse 246-247 (Charlottesville, Virginia: The Michie Company, 1960)

Legal Writings

H. Gerald Chapin, Banking Forms with the full text of the Negotiable Instruments Act as adopted in twenty-nine states and territories and in the District of Columbia (New York: Stearer Pub. Co., 1906)

______________, The Bankers Forms and Negotiable Instruments Law Annotated (New York: Daily Banker, 1908)(1913) [online text]

______________, Introductory Lecture in the Bankers' Law Course (New York: American Law Book Co., 1909)

______________, Bankers Law Course (New York: American Law Book Co., 1909-1910)

______________, Chapin's Banking Forms: with the full text of the negotiable instruments act as adopted in thirty-six states and territories and in the District of Columbia (New York: Steurer Pub. Co., 1911)

______________, Illustrative Cases on Torts, A Companion
Book to Chapin on Torts
(St. Paul, Minnesota: West Publishing Co., 1916) [online text]

______________, Handbook of the Law of Torts (St. Paul, Minnesota: West Publishing Co., 1917) [online text]

______________, Code Practice in New York (New York: Baker, Voorhis & Co., 1918)

______________, Bankers' Forms and the Negotiable Instruments Law (New York: Bankers Encyclopedia Co., 1923)