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See also:KENT, See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES (1763-1847) , See also:American jurist, was See also:born at See also:Philippi in New See also:York See also:State on the 31st of See also:July 1763. He graduated at Yale See also:College in 1781, and began to practise See also:law at See also:Poughkeepsie, in 1785 as an See also:attorney, and in 1787 at the See also:bar. In 1791 and 1792-93 Kent was a representative of Dutchess See also:county in the state See also:Assembly. In 1793 he removed to New York, where See also:Governor See also:Jay, to whom the See also:young lawyer's Federalist sympathies were a strong recommendation, appointed him a See also:master in See also:chancery for the See also:city. He was See also:professor of law in See also:Columbia College in 1793-98 and again served in the Assembly in 1796-97. In 1797 he became See also:recorder of New York, in 1798 See also:judge of the supreme See also:court of the state, in 1804 See also:chief See also:justice, and in 1814 See also:chancellor of New York. In 1822 he became a member of the See also:convention to revise the state constitution. Next See also:year, Chancellor Kent resigned his See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office and was re-elected to his former See also:chair. Out of the lectures he now delivered See also:grew the Commentaries on American Lau' (4 vols., 1826-1830), which by their learning, range and lucidity of See also:style won for him a high and permanent See also:place in the estimation of both See also:English and American jurists. Kent rendered most essential service to American See also:jurisprudence while serving as chancellor. Chancery law had been very unpopular during the colonial See also:period, and had received little development, and no decisions had been published. His judgments of this class (see See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson's Chancery Reports, 7 vols., 1816-1824) See also:cover a wide range of topics, and are so thoroughly considered and See also:developed as unquestionably to See also:form the basis of American See also:equity jurisprudence. Kent was a See also:man of See also:great purity of See also:character and of singular simplicity and guilelessness. He died in New York on the 12th of See also:December 1847.
To Kent we owe several other See also:works (including a Commentary on See also:International Law) of less importance than the Commentaries. See J. Duer's Discourse on the See also:Life, Character and Public Services of James Kent (1848) ; The See also:National Portrait See also:Gallery of Distinguished Americans, vol. ii. (1852) ; W. Kent, See also:Memoirs and Letters of Chancellor Kent (See also:Boston, 1898).
End of Article: KENT, JAMES (1763-1847)
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