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.

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MDCCLV. [1755]