A Manual of Maritime Law, Consisting of a Treatise on Ships and Freight and a Treatise on Insurance
Author: Francesco Rocco
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 1584778318
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reprint of the first and only English translation of Roccus' treatise on maritime law, which was first published in 1655. "This manual is very highly esteemed by commercial lawyers in all countries, for its compressed, methodical, and accurate learning, and is a book of high authority." Marvin 616. "[Roccus'] works are of more practical use to an English lawyer, than all the other maritime works [with one exception]... Lord Mansfield is under no inconsiderable obligation to them." Joseph Story, Literature of Maritime Law, in The Miscellaneous Writings of Joseph Story. 108-109 (W. Story editor).