COMMENTARIES

LIB

ON

AMERICAN LAW.

BY JAMES KENT.

VOL. II.

TWELFTH EDITION,

EDITED BY

O. W. HOLMES, JR.

BOSTON:

LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.

1873.

Southern District of New York, ss.

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the twenty-fifth day of November, A. D. 1826, in the fifty-first year of the Independence of the United States of America, JAMES KENT, of the said dis[L. S.] trict, has deposited in this office the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit:

"Commentaries on American Law. By JAMES KENT. Vol. I." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned." And also to an Act, entitled An Act, supplementary to an Act entitled An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints. JAMES DILL,

Clerk of the Southern District of New York.

Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, by JAMES KENT, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York.

Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty, by JAMES KENT, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York.

Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, by WILLIAM KENT, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Sou District of New York.

Entered according to the Act of Congress in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, by WILLIAM KENT, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York.

Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, by WILLIAM KENT, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern Dis trict of New York.

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Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty, by WILLIAM KENT, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern Dis trict of New York.

Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six. by MRS. WILLIAM KENT, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York.

Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1873, by JAMES KENT, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

CAMBRIDGE:

PRESS OF JOHN WILSON AND SON.

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