7. Angell, Joseph K.
A
Treatise on the Law of Carriers of Goods and Passengers, by
Land and Water.
Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1849
xxiv, 791
pp.
Reprint available
2003
ISBN 1-58477-292-1
Cloth. $95.
* The first
legal treatise on the subject of railroads. Angell [1794-1857]
was a Boston attorney and one of America’s first significant
legal scholars. A prolific author, he published treatises on
the law of corporations, watercourses and other topics. His
works were esteemed highly and Angell on Carriers viewed
as one of his finest treatises. James Kent said they were indispensable
to the intelligent lawyer (DAB); several were required
reading at Harvard Law School.
With an appendix of adjudged cases, acts of Congress “for the
safety of passengers on board of steam-boats” and an addenda
of decisions “not published in season to be inserted in the
body of the work.” Dictionary of National Biography I:310.
See Warren, A History of the American Bar 546. 
8.
Ashburner, Walter
The
Rhodian Sea-Laws. Edited from the Manuscripts.
Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1909
ccxciii,
132 pp. Reprinted 2001
LCCN 00-065551.
ISBN 1-58477-173-9. Cloth. $75.
9.
Benedict, Erastus C.
The
American Admiralty. Its Jurisdiction and Practice with Practical
Forms and Directions.
New York:
Banks, Gould & Co., 1850.
xiii, 651
pp. Reprinted 2002
LCCN 2991941402.
ISBN 1-58477-191-7. Cloth. $125.
10.
Browne, Arthur
A
Compendious View of the Civil Law and of the Law of the Admiralty
being the substance of a course of lectures read in the University
of Dublin.
New York:
Halstead and Voorhies, 1840
Two volumes.
xvi, 536; xi, 567 pp. Reprinted 2000
LCCN 99-18284.
ISBN 1-886363-88-9. Cloth. $175.
11.
Flanders, Henry
A
Treatise on Maritime Law.
Boston:
Little, Brown and Company, 1852
xvi, 444
pp. Reprinted 1999
ISBN 1-886363-72-2.
Cloth. $75.
12.
Fulton, Thomas Wemyss
The
Sovereignty of the Sea.
An
Historical Account of the Claims of England to the Dominion
of the British Seas, and of the Evolution
of
the Territorial Waters: With Special Reference to the Rights
of Fishing and the Naval Salute.
Edinburgh:
William Blackwood and Sons, 1911
xxvi, 799
pp. Illustrated. Reprinted 2002
ISBN 1-58477-232-8.
Cloth. $110.
13.
Giesecke, Albert Anthony
American
Commercial Legislation Before 1789.
New York:
University of Pennsylvania: D. Appleton and Company, agents,
1910
167 pp. Reprinted
2001
LCCN 00-058813.
ISBN 1-58477-153-4. Cloth. $65.
14.
Grotius, Hugo
The
Freedom of the Seas or The Right which Belongs to the Dutch
to Take Part in the East Indian Trade.
Translated
with a Revision of the Latin Text of 1633 by Ralph van Deman
Magoffin.
Edited with
an Introductory Note by James Brown Scott.
New York:
Oxford University Press, 1916
xv, 83pp.,
paged in duplicate. Reprinted 2001
LCCN 2001022509.
ISBN 1-58477-182-8. Cloth. $65.
15.
Kulsrud, Carl J.
Maritime
Neutrality to 1780.
A
History of the Main Principles Governing Neutrality and Belligerency
to 1780.
Boston:
Little, Brown, and Company, 1936
x, 351 pp.
Reprinted 2000
LCCN 99-38825.
ISBN 1-58477-027-9. Cloth. $65.
16.
Marsden. R.[eginald]. G.[odfrey], ed.
Documents
Relating to Law and Custom of the Sea.
[n.p.]:
The Navy Record Society, 1915-6
Two volumes.
xxxiii, 561; xl, 457, [5] pp. Reprinted 1999
LCCN 99-24138.
ISBN 1-886363-96-X.
Cloth. $175.
17.
Selden, John
Mare
Clausum. Of the dominion, or, Ownership of the sea. Two books:
in the First, is Shew’d that the Sea, by the Law of Nature,
or Nations, is not Common to all Men but Capable of Private
Dominion or Proprietie [sic]
as well as the Land in the Second, is Proved that the Dominion
of the British Sea, or that which Incompasseth the Isle of Great
Britain, is, and ever hath been, a Part or Appendant of the
Empire of that Island. Written at first in Latin and entituled
[sic] Mare clausum, seu, De dominio maris. Translated
into English and set forth with som [sic] additional
evidences and discourses by Marchmont Nedham.
London:
William Du-Gard, 1652
xliii, 200,
37 pp.
Reprint available
May 2004
LCCN 2002025939.
ISBN 1-58477-272-7
Cloth. $110.
*Reprint
of the first edition in English. Mare Clausum (Dominion
of the Sea) is the most famous British reply to the argument
of Grotius’s Mare Liberum, which denied the validity
of England’s claim to the high seas south and east of
England.
Selden [1584-1654], disputed this claim, arguing that
England’s
jurisdiction extends, in fact, to all waters surrounding the
isles. His use of common-law principles to rebut Grotius’s philosophical
argument is quite impressive. Holdsworth notes that his case
was enriched by “a vast historical knowledge,” replete with
references to the customs of peoples from the times of the Greeks
to his time. See Holdsworth, A History of English Law
V: 10 11.
18.
[Twiss, Sir Travers]
The
Black Book of the Admiralty, with an Appendix.
Monumenta Juridica. Edited by Sir Travers Twiss.
London: Longman
& Co., 1871
Four volumes.
Reprinted 1998
LCCN 97-38809
ISBN 1-886363-39-0 Cloth. $495.
