Commentaries on American Law

1. An Essay on the Trial by Jury Lysander Spooner 1 authority · 1 endorsed 2 citations · 3 passages

   ch. 5 · ch. 23 2 passages anchored here

   Explicitly cited by name and volume/page as adopting the interpretation.

   as, for example, by Kent, (2 Comm.

2. The Law of Intellectual Property Lysander Spooner 2 authority 2 citations

   ch. 28 · ch. 32

   Kent is named directly and his description of the Common Law is reported at length as authoritative definition.

   ” Kent says of it, “The Common Law includes those principles, usages, and rules of action, applicable to the government and security of person and property, which do not rest for their authority upon any express and positive declaration of the will of the legislature.

3. The Law of Torts Sir Frederick Pollock 1 extended 1 citation

   ch. 1

   Referenced as the work later edited by the addressee, extending and correcting Kent's earlier dismissal of the Year Books.

   ” It is strange to think that Manning was as one crying in the wilderness, and that even Kent dismissed the Year Books as of doubtful value for any purpose, and Edition:

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