Commentaries on American Law
Book by James Kent / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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. Gould was published in 1896, and a fifteenth edition edited by Jon Roland was published 1997-2002.[4]