Doctors Commons And the Old Court of Admiralty a Short History of the Civilian
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' ' We are a long way yet from the admission made in Edward VI. 's reign (diplomatically and to a foreigner, it should be owned) that English maritime legal practice was nothing but the civil law together with certain customs of the realm. Still, as a matter of legal 1 Lois Maritimes. Vol. IV. , p. 197. 2 Rolls of Parliament, 7*8 Hen. IV. ; 2 Hen. V. , cap. 6. 8 Rolls of Parliament, I Hen. V. 50 THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY history, it has perhaps hardly been enough em- phasised that in admiralty and ...international matters, through the various influences to which allusion has been made, the tide was during the fifteenth century strongly setting in from the southward. One feature of the case that the Commons, as above mentioned, asked to have referred to the Court of Admiralty may be pointed out as seeming to afford evidence of this tendency. The facts have been recorded in some detail, and are inter- esting not only as providing a strangely modern picture of nautical procedure in the exercise of the right of visit and search, but also because they show that the prize law under which an English com- mander acted at this date was that of the Mediter- ranean Consolat del Mar.
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