KEN KENNEDY, M. V. Practical Remarks on the Proceedings of General Courts Martial; Authority of Courts Martial; Formation of Courts and Challenges; Arrangements and Form of Trial ; Prosecution; Defence; Reply and Rejoinder; Evidence; Find- ing and Sentence; Revision and Approval; Judge Advocate, &c. 12mo. London. 1825. KENNEDY, T. The Code of Practice of the Court of Chancery, containing a brief History of the Jurisdiction and Practice of the Court, a Chronological Table of all the Statutes relating to the Court, showing by what Enactments they have been Repealed or Altered; with the General Orders, from 1814 to the Present Time, and an Index. 12mo. London. 1843. The greatest recommendation of a book of this kind is the accuracy with which it is compiled. Mr. Kennedy has collected with great dili- gence, from every available source of information, whatever will illus- trate the various subjects included in his work, and arranged his materials with accuracy and judgment. 26 L. O. 197; (29) 359; 7 Jurist, 234. KENNEDY, J. P. A Discourse on the Life and Character of William Wirt, late Attorney-General of the United States. 8vo. Baltimore. 1834. KENT, JAMES. Dissertations; being the Preliminary Part of a Course of Law Lectures. 8vo. New York. 1795. . A Summary of the first ten Lectures of the Pro fessor of Law, in Columbia College. 8vo. New York. 1824. . Commentaries on American Law. 5th ed. 4 vols. I 8vo. New York. 1844. See Johnson ; Kinne. Borrowed as much of our law is from various sources, and changed somewhat in the introduction either by legislation or judicial construction, to adapt it to our institutions, together with the variant local law, and the federal jurisprudence, to metliodize and explain this complex sys- tem, is the labour that our author assumed when he undertook to write Commentaries upon American Law. Such a task required no ordi- nary knowledge of the sources and growth of our diversified field of jurisprudence, no ordinary skill and judgment in selecting the materials, and presenting them in an Institutional form, and no ordinary style to make them attractive. It has, however, been satisfactorily accomplished. The Commentaries were written after a period in the author's life, when, by the laws of his native State, his mental powers were supposed to be impaired by reason of his great age, and to render him unfit for duly 437
