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Commentaries on American Law is a four-volume book by James Kent. [1] It was adapted from his lectures at Columbia Law School starting in 1794. [2] It was first published in 1826 by O. Halsted and has been reprinted and revised many times since. A twelfth edition was edited by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. [3] A fourteenth edition edited by John M ...
Lect. 64: Of Title by Descent. Lect. 65: Of Title by Escheat, by Forfeiture, and by Execution. Lect. 66: Of Title by Deed. Lect. 67: Of Title by Will or Devise. NOTES. Commentaries on American Law (1826-30), by James Kent. Based on the first edition. Footnotes have been converted to chapter end notes, and spelling has been modernized.
James Kent (July 31, 1763 – December 12, 1847) was an American jurist, New York legislator, legal scholar, and first Professor of Law at Columbia College. [ 1 ] His Commentaries on American Law (based on lectures first delivered at Columbia in 1794, and further lectures in the 1820s) became the formative American law book in the antebellum ...
Oct 19, 2024 · James Kent (1763–1847) was a judge in the state of New York and was the first professor of law at Columbia University. Between 1826 and 1830 he authored the four-volume set of books from which this selection was excerpted. The Commentaries were a “restatement” (i.e., a summary) of current U.S. laws. Often they were the only legal books lawyers of that period possessed, and as such were ...
During one such period, Kent was forced to retire to a village and reportedly there received his first exposure to Blackstone's Commentaries) After College, Kent studied law as an apprentice to Egbert Benson, Attorney General of New York.s and was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of New York in January, 1785 at age twenty-one.
Sep 24, 2021 · The fifth edition, the last to come out in Kent’s lifetime, appeared in 1844. Kent died in 1847. The work appeared in 14 editions by 1896. The twelfth edition was edited by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Abridgements and popularizations of the work were also published even in Kent’s lifetime.
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1852.] Kent's Commentaries on American Law. 109 founded the Vinerian Professorship of Law in Oxford, neither the emoluments nor the dignity of the office were sufficient to call from the Bench or the Bar any one who had already climbed the steep ascent and won the highest honors of the profession. William Blackstone, at the age of thirty, had
