John Bodyier, an American jurist, born at Codognan, France, in 1787, died in Philadelphia, Nov. 18, 1851. He was of a Quaker family, which emigrated to this country and settled in Philadelphia when he was in his 15th year. He obtained -employment for several years in a bookstore, published a newspaper for a short time at Brownsville, was admitted to the bar in 1818, and in 1822 began to practise in Philadelphia. In 1838 he became associate judge of the court of criminal sessions. He published in 1839 a "Law Dictionary, adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States of America, and of the several States of the American Union," the fruit of 10 years' labor (2 vols. 8vo). In 1841 he commenced a new edition of Bacon's " Abridgment of the Law," in 10 vols, royal 8vo. His greatest work, published two months before his death, was the " Institutes of American Law " (4 vols. 8vo). - His daughter and only child, Hannah M. Bouvier, born in 1811, is the author of a popular work entitled " Familiar Astronomy," illustrated by celestial maps and engravings, with a "Treatise on the Globes," etc. (8vo, Philadelphia, 1857).