“The common law includes those principles, usages and rules of action applicable to the government and security of persons and property, which do not rest for their authority upon any express and positive declaration of the will of the legislature.”

About James Kent

Jurist • American

James Kent was a preeminent American jurist and legal scholar whose work profoundly shaped American law in the early 19th century. He served as the first professor of law at Columbia College and later became Chief...