Commentaries on American law / by James Kent.

Birmingham, AL : Legal Classics Library, 1986.

New York, N.Y. : O'Halsted, 1826-1930

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Law -- United States.

Real property -- United States.

Personal property -- United States.

Jurisprudence -- United States.

Civil rights -- United States.

Volume 1

Part I: Of the law of nations

Lecture I. Of the foundation and history of the law of nations

Lecture II. Of the rights and duties of nations in a state of peace

Lecture III. Of the declaration, and other early measures of a state of war

Lecture IV. Of the various kinds of property liable to capture

Lecture V. Of the rights of belligerent nations in relation to each other

Lecture VI. Of the general rights and duties of neutral nations

Lecture VII. Of restrictions upon neutral trade, trade

Lecture VIII. Of truces, passports, and treaties of peace

Lecture IX. Of offences against the law of nations

Part II: Of the government and constitutional jurisprudence of the United States

Lecture X. Of the history of the American Union

Lecture XI. Of Congress

Lecture XII. Of judicial constructions of the Powers of Congress

Lecture XIII. Of the President

Lecture XIV. Of the judiciary department

Lecture XV. Of the original and appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court

Lecture XVI. Of the jurisdiction of the Federal Courts in respect to the common law, and in respect to parties

Lecture XVII. Of the district and territorial Courts of the United States

Lecture XVIII. Of the concurrent jurisdiction of the state governments

Lecture XIX. Of constitutional restrictions on the powers of the several states

Part III: Of the various sources of the municipal law of the several states.

Lecture XX. Of statute law

Lecture XXI. Of reports of judicial decisions

Lecture XXII. Of the principal publications on the common law

Lecture XXIII. Of the civil law

Volume 2

Part IV: Of the law concerning the rights of persons

Lecture XXIV. Of the absolute rights of persons

Lecture XXV. Of aliens and natives

Lecture XXVI. Of the law concerning marriage

Lecture XX VII. Of the Law concerning divorce

Lecture XXVIII. Of husband and wife

Lecture XXIX. Of parent and child

Lecture XXX. Of guardian and ward

Lecture XXXI. Of infants - and herein of their acts, when void, when voidable, and when valid

Lecture XXXII. Of master and servant

Lecture XXXIII. Of corporations

Part V: Of the law concerning personal property

Lecture XXXIV. Of the history, progress, and absolute rights of property

Lecture XXX V. Of the nature, and various kinds of personal property

Lecture XXXVI. Of title to personal property by original acquisition

Lecture XXXVII. Of title to personal property by transfer by act of law

Lecture XXXVIII. Of title to personal property by gift

Lecture XXXIX. Of the contract of sale

Lecture XL. Of bailment

Lecture XLI. Of principal and agent

Lecture XLII. Of the history of maritime law

Vol 3

Part V: Of the law concerning personal property (continued from the second volume)

Lecture XLIII. Of the law of partnership

Lecture XLIV. Of negotiable paper

Lecture XLV. Of the title to merchants' vessels

Lecture XLVI. Of the persons employed in the navigation of merchants' ships

Lecture XLVII. Of the contract of affreightment

Lecture XLVIII. Of the law of insurance

Lecture XLIX. Of maritime law

Part VI: Of the law concerning real property

Lecture L. Of the foundation of title to land, and herein of Indian rights and titles

Lecture LI. Of incorporeal hereditaments

Lecture LII. Of the history of the law of tenure

Volume 4

Part VI: Of the law concerning real property (continued from the third volume)

Lecture LIII. Of estates in fee

Lecture LIV. Of estates for life

Lecture LV. Of states for years, at will, or at sufferance

Lecture LVI. Of estates upon condition

Lecture LVII. Of the law of mortgage

Lecture LVIII. Of estates in remainder

Lecture LIX. Of executory devises

Lecture LiX. Of uses and trusts

Lecture LXI. Of powers

Lecture LXII. Of estates in reversion

Lecture LXIII. Of a joint interest in land

Lecture LXIV. Of title by descent

Lecture LXV. Of title by escheat, by forfeiture, and by execution

Lecture LXVI. Of title by deed

Lecture LXVII. Of title by will or devise.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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