Commentaries on American Law

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COMMENTARIES

AMERICAN L AW.

BY JAMES KENT.

VOLUME III.

SECOND EDITION.

New-York:

0. HALSTED.

1832.

Southern District of New York, ss.

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the ninth day of October, A. D. 182, in the fifty-third (L. S.)

year of the Independence of the United States of America, James Kent, of the

said district, 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. III." In conformity to an Aet of 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 time therein mentioned." And also to an Act, entitled, " An Act, supplementary to an Act, entitled, An Act for the enconragement of learning, by sccuring 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 etcbing historical and other prints."

FRED. I. BETTS,
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 NewYork.

CLAYTON AND VAN XORDEN, PRINTERS,

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CONTENTS.

ᏢᎪᎡᎢ V.

OF THE LAW CONCERNING PERSONAL PROPERTY.

(CONTINUED FROM THE SECOND VOLUME.)

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LECTURE XLII.-Of the History of Maritime Lato..........

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