Kent, James
lawyer, jurist, author, was born July 31, 1763, in Putnam county, N. Y. He was a jurist of eminence, who chancellor of New York in 1814-23, and professor of law at Columbia college in 1793-98, and again on retiring from the chancellorship of the state. His famous Commentaries on American Law, work of the highest authority, reached a thirteenth edition in 1884, that of Holmes a and Barnes. He published also a treatise On the Charter of New York City. He died Dec. 12, 1847, in New York city.