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]
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- ^ Kent, James (1826). Commentaries on American Law. Vol. I (1 ed.). New York: O. Halsted. Retrieved 7 August 2015. via Google Books; Kent, James (1827). Commentaries on American Law. Vol. II (1 ed.). New York: O. Halsted. Retrieved 7 August 2015 – via Google Books.; Kent, James (1828). Commentaries on American Law. Vol. III (1 ed.). New York: O. Halsted. Retrieved 7 August 2015 – via Google Books.; Kent, James (1830). Commentaries on American Law. Vol. IV (1 ed.). New York: O. Halsted. Retrieved 7 August 2015 – via Google Books.
- ^ Kent, James (1873). Holmes, Oliver Wendell Jr. (ed.). Commentaries on American Law. Vol. I (12 ed.). Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. Retrieved 7 August 2015. via Google Books
- ^ Constitution Society: Commentaries on American Law