Int 35:87 HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY 1870. april 11 the author, Palem 110 1824 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by DAVID ROBERTS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts. RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED BY H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY. 4-145 PREFACE. THE present work is about to be committed to the profession and public, with the hope that it may accomplish the Author's design and plan, and become a useful and readable Law Book. If it have the effect upon any student, ambitious to excel in his profession, to stimulate to labor and incite him to the requisite study, it will be some compen sation. If it find moderate favor on its mission, that will furnish encouragement to future improvement; and to this end, the Author announces that any seasonable suggestions from the kindly disposed, or candid criticisms of the profession, will be cordially welcomed. "TO HON. CHARLES G. LORING1 This volume is, with his consent, respectfully dedicated, as some slight token of my appreciation of his honorable career as a conspicuous member of a Bar, heretofore as now, distinguished for the eminent ability of its members. "In so doing I recall, but with a melancholy pleasure, the kind, just, generous, and magnanimous tribute of respect and affection (which was by Mr. Loring addressed to the Suffolk Bar, July 19, 1859,) for an early friend and correspondent, the late Rufus Choate, that greatest of advocates and most amiable of men, from whose approval of my plan, I probably received more encouragement in this undertaking than from any and all other sources. DAVID ROBERTS." 1864. The Dedication, as prepared in 1864, will be retained, and is now given in memoriam. May 25, 1869. D. R. CONTENTS. Maritime Law, its sources, codes and ordinances Writers on: Selden, Zouch, Loccenius, Bynkershoeck, Valin, PAGE Struggle between the civilians and Common Law Judges Acts, resolutions, ordinances, etc., before the time of Lord Stowell Tender for Salvage, before trial, judicious Several sets of salvors may be claimants Their respective rights, and functions of the court. Abandonment at sea absolves mariner from his contract Exceptions, no discrimination, remnants saved contribute Ship, freight and cargo contributory Seamen's wages, ship's provisions, and interest on money not contrib- |