TY - BOOK ID - 78403053 TI - Henry Clay the lawyer PY - 2015 SN - 0813159555 9780813159553 0813193907 PB - Lexington The University Press of Kentucky DB - UniCat KW - Lawyers KW - Clay, Henry, KW - Clay, Henri KW - United States KW - Politics and government UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78403053 AB - Though he was best known as a politician, Henry Clay (1777-1852) maintained an active legal practice for more than fifty years. He was a leading contributor both to the early development of the U.S. legal system and to the interaction between law and politics in pre-Civil War America.During the years of Clay's practice, modern American law was taking shape, building on the English experience but working out the new rules and precedents that a changing and growing society required. Clay specialized in property law, a natural choice at a time of entangled land claims, ill-defined boundaries, and ER -