Samuel Cocceji

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Samuel Cocceji (1679-1755)

He was the son of Henry Cocceji.

Cocceji was Minister of Justice and Chancellor of Prussia under Frederick the Great; a "prince of lawyers", and "a very Hercules in cleansing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/search.php?q=law">law</a> stables" as law-reformer.

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopaedia.