Author: Travers Twiss
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-10-13
Total Pages: 626
ISBN-13: 9780266261391
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Excerpt from Monumenta Juridica, Vol. 2: The Black Book of the Admiralty It also recorded in the Costumaries of other English boroughs, of which translations or extracts have been preserved to our time, that courts sat in those boroughs from day to day, or from sea to sea, as the case might be, to administer justice between men of various nations, whom the spirit of commerce or the necessities of navi-o gation happened to bring within their local jurisdiction. The Domesday of Ipswich is probably the earliest extant record of any court sitting regularly from tide to tide to administer the Law Marine in England. When and how this practice originated does not appear. It was a legacy of imperial Rome that maritime causes should be heard without any delay before the competent judges in each province, and there is good reason for believing that mediaeval Europe accepted this legacy, and never allowed it to lapse, and that tribunals for the special decision of maritime causes were maintained in some form or other in the more important maritime cities of Europe during that period, which from the absence of written records to explain and illustrate the working of its institutions, we are accustomed to call the Dark Ages. In the particular case of Ipswich we know that it was an important borough in the reign of Edward the Confessor, that it had town courts before the time of William the Norman, and that King Henry I. In the first year of his reign reorganised those courts, and that the same king convened the captains of the northern and of the western fleets to meet him at Ipswich, where ordinances,1 8m, touching the criminal jurisdiction to be exercised by them within the seas belonging to the Kings of England were decreed by that king, with the concurrence of his temporal lords. It is not too much to suppose that at this time a Customary Law' of the Sea in civil matters was administered to. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
