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THE YALE LAW SCHOOL. Bv Leonard M. Daggett. ' I ""HE Law School at Litchfield, the most celebrated of the early schools lately described in this journal, was discontinued in 1833. The approximate coincidence, in time, of this event with the establishment of the Yale School is probably the cause of a prevalent notion that the two schools had some formal connection, or that the Yale School succeeded the older institution. It is doubtless true that the dissolution of the one was a material help in the development of the other, and certainly true that through the agency of the Yale School, Connecticut's educators are still contributing their full share

to the scholarship and intelligence of the na tion's lawyers. But except for the inheri tance of a few books, the succession is one of responsibility only, the connection limited to the accidents of situation. The descent of the Yale School can be directly traced to one which flourished in New Haven for many years before the dissolution of the Litchfield School. Mr. Seth P. Staples, a graduate of Yale College in 1797, and doubtless now remem bered by some of the older members of the New York Bar as a leading commercial and patent lawyer in that city, was in the ear