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William Daniel, Jr. (November 26, 1806 – March 28, 1873) was an American jurist. He served on the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, that state's highest court, from 1846 to 1865. ==Biography== Daniel was born in Cumberland County, Virginia. His father was a judge of the general court and his mother was the sister of Judge Briscoe Baldwin. Daniel was educated at Hampden–Sydney College and the University of Virginia, studied law in 1827—28, and was admitted to the bar before he was twenty-one years old. Daniel served three terms in the Virginia House of Delegates, representing Campbell County in 1831, 1835 and 1837. He was elected twice as a Democrat.〔 On December 15, 1846, Daniel was elected to the Court of Appeals. After the adoption of the Commonwealth's new constitution in 1851, he was again selected by legislators to the reorganized court. Daniel was a fierce proponent of slavery, and authored the 1858 decision in Bailey v. Poindexter's Estate, which voided a manumission provision in a will because it gave slaves a choice which he and three other justices found them incapable of making. He served in this position until 1865. 〔Paul Finkelman, The law of slavery and Bondage: a casebook(NYU)p.132〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Daniel (judge)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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