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Francois Xavier Martin : ウィキペディア英語版 | Francois Xavier Martin
François Xavier Martin (March 17, 1762 – December 11, 1846), was an American jurist and author, the first Attorney General of State of Louisiana, and longtime Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court. Born in France, he immigrated to North Carolina before the American Revolutionary War. He was appointed as Attorney General of the Territory of Orleans after the Louisiana Purchase; he also helped untangle layers of French and Spanish colonial law in the territory and subsequent state of Louisiana. His legal writing and reviews of cases was important to codification of Louisiana law in the 1820s. Likely his most well-known case in his decade as Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court was that of the freedom suit of Sally Miller, in ''Miller v. Belmonti'' (1845 La). The court ruled to free Miller, a slave of obvious European descent, in part based on her appearance; the presumption was that she was "white" (European American), and the defendants had not sufficiently proved that she was enslaved. The decision was unpopular in the South and contributed to the Louisiana Constitutional Convention's abolishing the state Supreme Court in March 1846, ending Martin's career at the age of 84. The following day, the convention reinstated the court but did not reappoint Martin or his five jurist colleagues. ==Early life and career== Martin was born in Marseilles, France, of Provençal descent. In 1780 as a young man he went to the French colony of Martinique in the Caribbean. Before the close of the American Revolutionary War, Martin immigrated to North Carolina. In New Bern, he taught French and learned English, and set up a printing business. After reading the law at an established firm, he was admitted to the North Carolina bar in 1789. He published various legal books and edited ''Acts of the North Carolina Assembly from 1715 to 1803'' (2nd ed., 1809).
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