Excerpt from Daniel Webster as a Jurist: An Address to the Students in the Law School of the University at Cambridge

I pass over his professional life during his resi dence in Rockingham. It was one of constant em ployment. He argued more cases, it is said, than any other member of the bar, but most of them were not of a character to live in history. Instances are related of his sagacity and success there, but a single anecdote must suffice at this time. The case grew out of the common transaction of a conveyance of a farm by a gentleman somewhat advanced in years, with a life-lease or a bond taken back to secure the payment of an annual sum, or rent, for the sup port of the old gentleman. The sum was duly paid for two or three years, and a receipt of the amount indorsed upon the instrument, and signed by the holder. Next came a failure to pay, and to an appli cation for payment the answer was, that the whole matter was settled, and discharged, the last year.

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