The maritime dicæologie or, sea-jurisdiction of England. In three books. I. Setting forth the Antiquity of the Admiralty in England, proving the same to have been settled before Edward the Third's Time, shewing the Beginning of the Sea Laws. The Laws of Oleron. The King of England's Dominion over the British Seas. The Sea Laws of the Grecians, Romans, &c. and the Power of the Admiral of Scotland. II. Proving the Ports, Havens, and Creeks of the Sea to be within the Jurisdiction of the Admiralty, from the Rhodian Laws, the Laws of Oleron, and several antient Records and Adjudications as well in England as in other Nations. III. Shewing that all Contracts concerning Maritime Affairs are within the Jurisdiction of the Admiralty, and there cognizable, from the antient Statutes of the Admiralty, the Laws of Oleron, several antient Records in the Tower, Chancery, &c. And Arguments to the contrary drawn from several Statutes, &c. answered. By John Exton, Doctor of Laws, and Judge of his Majesty's High Court of Admiralty

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Exton, John
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London sold by J. Worrall, at the Dove in Bell-Yard, near Lincoln's Inn 1755, MDCCLV. [1755]
Edition:	The second edition. To which is added, .. a case .. concerning the jurisdiction of the Admiralty coroner and the County coroner
Subjects:	Admiralty / England / Early Works To 1800 Maritime Law / England / Early Works To 1800
Online Access:	http://nl.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/1011400100?orig...
Collection:	Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa