Southern District of New-York, ss. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the ninth day of October, A. D., 1828, in the fifty-third year of the Independence of the United States of America, JAMES (L. S.) 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 the Act of the 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 times therein mentioned." And also to an Act, entitled, An Act, supplementary to an Act, 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 times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching historical and other prints. FRED. J. 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 New-York. Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty, by JAMES KENT, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New-York. Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, by WILLIAM KENT, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New-York. VAN NORDEN & AMERMAN, Printers, 60 William-st. CONTENTS. LECTURE XLII. Of the History of Maritime Law......................... 1. Of the maritime legislation of the ancients........ (6.) By the inability of the parties to act................ 62 (7.) Consequences of the dissolution.................... Id. 9. Of mercantile guaranties......... 10. Of the principal treatises on bills and notes............ 124 130 133 ......... 139 151 (1.) His power to bind the owner, and owner's power over him........ |