engagement. But all that anxious care and hopeful labour could effect for a work of this kind I have tried to accomplish; and the result, such as it is, I now respectfully submit to the judgment of the Profession and the Public.

DAVID MACLACHLAN.

3, BRICK COURT, TEMPLE,

24th October, 1860.

The following Editions of Treatises have been used for the

references in this Volume.

ABBOTT on Shipping (cited by the Author's name merely); 4th edit.

by Shee (cited with the Editor's name, or the number of the edition); 10th edit. 8vo. Lond. 1856.

; 7th American by the page in the margin); Svo.

edit. by Perkins (referred to Boston, U.S. 1854.

Arnould on Insurance; 2nd edit. 8vo.

Lond. 1857.

Baily on General Average; 8vo. Lond. 1851.

Beawes' Lex Mercatoria; 6th edit. 4to. Lond. 1813.

Bell's Commentaries on the Law of Scotland; when not otherwise distinguished, the 6th edit. 8vo. by Shaw, Edinb. 1858, is referred

to; the 3rd edit. 4to. Edinb. 1816-19, is cited by. the edition. Principles of the Law of Scotland; 4th edit. 8vo. Edinb. 1839. Benecke on the Principles of Indemnity; 8vo. Lond. 1824. Blackburn on Sale; 8vo. Lond. 1845.

Boulay-Paty, Droit Maritime; 8vo. Paris, 1834.

Bynkershoek, Quæstiones Juris Privati; Quæstiones Juris PubliciOpera Omnia; fol. Lugd. Batav. 1767.

Casaregis, Discursus Legales de Commercio ; 2nd edit. fol. Venetiis, 1740. Chitty on Bills of Exchange, by Russell and Maclachlan; 10th edit. 8vo. Lond. 1859.

on Contracts, by J. A. Russell; 5th edit. 8vo. Lond. 1853.

Cleirac, Us et Coutumes de la Mer; 4to. Bourdeaux, 1661.

Coote, R. H., on Mortgages; 3rd edit. 8vo. by R. Coote. Lond. 1850. H. C., on the New Practice of the Admiralty Court; 8vo. 1860.

Lond.

Domat, Loix Civiles; nouvelle edit. fol. Paris, 1777.
Emerigon, des Assurances, par Boulay-Paty; nouvelle edit. Rennes,

1827. The Author's treatise on Contrats à la Grosse, is in-
cluded in the second volume under the current page, and refer-
ence to each work is made indifferently by the Author's name
merely, and the volume with the page.

Erskine's Institutes of the Law of Scotland, by Ivory; fol. Edinb. 1828.

Favard-de-Langlade, edition of the Code de Commerce, including the Exposé des Motifs relative to each portion as it was brought under the consideration of the Corps Legislatif; 8vo. Paris, 1807-12.

Godolphin, View of the Admiral Jurisdiction; 12mo. Lond. 1661. Grotius, de Jure Belli et Pacis; varior. edit. by Barbeyrac. Amst. 1720. Hautefeuille, des Droits et des Devoirs des Nations Neutres en temps de

guerre maritime; 8vo. Paris, 1848-49.

Holt, on Merchant Ships and Seamen and Maritime Contracts; 2nd edit. 8vo. Lond. 1824.

Kent, Commentaries on American Law (referred to by the page in the margin); 9th edit. 8vo. Boston, U.S. 1858.

Kuricke, de Assecurationibus, in the Fasciculus Scriptorum de Jure Nautico et Maritimo, of J. G. Heineccius; 4to. Halae. Magd. 1740.

Lewin, on Trusts; 3rd edit. 8vo. Lond. 1857.

Loccenius, de Jure Maritimo, in the Fasciculus Scriptorum de Jur. Naut. et Marit. of J. G. Heineccius; 4to. Halae. Magd. 1740. Magens, on Insurance; the second volume containing a collection of foreign maritime ordinances, some of which are of too recent date to be included in the work of M. Pardessus; 4to. Lond. 1755.

Malyne's Lex Mercatoria; 3rd edit. fol. Lond. 1686.

Marshall, on Insurance, by C. Marshall; 3rd edit. Lond. 1823.

Martens, G. F., des Armateurs, les Prises et surtout les Reprises; 8vo. Gottingue, 1795.

Précis du Droit des Gens Moderne de l'Europe, avec des Notes de M. S. Pinheiro-Ferreira; nouvelle edit. 8vo. Paris, 1831.

Molloy, de Jure Maritimo; 8vo. Lond. 1682.

Ortolan, Theod., des Règles Internationales et Diplomatie de la Mer;

8vo. Paris, 1845.

Pailliet, Manuel du Droit; 4to.

Pardessus, de Droit Commercial;

Paris, 1824.

5th edit. 8vo. Paris, 1840.

Collection des Lois Maritimes antérieures au XVIIIe. siècle

(cited Pardess.); 6 vols. 4to. Paris, 1828-45.

Park, on Insurance, by Hildyard; 8vo. Lond. 1842.

Parsons, on Shipping; 8vo. Boston, U.S. 1859.

Phillips, on Insurance; 3rd edit., 8vo. Boston, U.S. 1853.
Pothier, Euvres de, par M. Bugnet; 8vo. Paris, 1845-48.

Louage

Maritime, comprising des Chartes-parties, de Louage des Matelots, des Avaries, in vol. 4; Prêt à la Grosse, vol. 5; de l'Hypothèque, vol. 9.

Pothier, Pandecta; fol. Lugd. 1682.

Roccus, de Navibus et Naulo Notabilia; edit. nova, 24mo. Amst. 1708. Rodriguez, de Concursu et Privilegiis Creditorum in bonis debitoris ; fol.

Venetiis, 1664.

New York, 1852.

Sedgwick, on the Measure of Damages; 2nd edit. 8vo.
Selden, Mare Clausum, Opera Omnia-by Wilkins; fol.
Sheppard's Touchstone, by Atherley; 8vo. Lond. 1826.
Smith's Leading Cases; 4th edit. 8vo. Lond. 1856.

Lond. 1726.

Stair's Institutions of the Law of Scotland, by More; 4to. Edinb. 1832. by Brodie (cited with the

Editor's name); fol. Edinb. 1826-31.

Stevens, on General Average; 5th edit. 8vo. Lond. no date.

Story on Agency; 8vo. Lond. 1839.

on Conflict of Laws; 2nd edit. 8vo. Lond. 1841.

on Prize Courts, by Pratt; 8vo. Lond. 1854.

Straccha, de Nautis, Navibus, et Navigatione, (et Tractatus varii); 12mo.

Colon. Agripp. 1576.

Sugden, on Vendors and Purchasers; 13th edit. 8vo. Lond. 1857.

Taylor, on Evidence; 2nd edit. 8vo. Lond. 1855.

Valin, Nouveau Commentaire sur l'Ord. de la Marine du mois d'Aout, 1681; 4to. Rochelle, 1766.

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Van der Linden, Institutes of the Laws of Holland, by Henry; 8vo. Lond. 1828.

Vattel, Law of Nations, by Chitty; 8vo. Lond. 1834.

Vinnius, in Peckium ad Rem Nauticam; 8vo. Lugd. 1647.

in Institutiones Imperiales; 4to.

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Amst. 1665.

Hagae, 1734.

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U.S. 1855.