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SECT. III.

BILLS of EXCHANGE and PROMISSORY NOTES.

1. BAYLEY'S (Sir John, one of the justices of the court of K. B.) summary of the law of bills of exchange, cash bills, and promissory notes, 3d edit. with great additions, 1813, 13s. 2d edit. 8vo. 1797, 5s. 1st edit.

1789, 2s.

2. BLAGRAVE'S (J.) law for regulating bills of exchange, inland and foreign, &c. elucidated by general rules and obsérvations, for the information and legal guidance of the public in all transactions of receipts and payments. Seventh edit. 12mo. 25.

3. CHITTY'S (Jos.) practical treatise on the law of bills of exchange, checks on bankers, promissory notes, bankers cash notes, and bank notes, with an appendix of precedents, 1812, 15s.; 1809, 6s.; 1807, 5s.; 1799, 3 s.

4. CUNNINGHAM'S (T.) law of bills of exchange, promissory notes, bank notes, and insurances, containing all the statutes, cases at large, &c. methodically digested, with examples for computing exchange, &c. 6th edit. corrected; with the addition of several cases, determined by lord Hardwicke and lord Mansfield, &c. 8vo. 1761, 2s.; 1766, 3s.; 1778, 7s.

Per Gould, justice, this is a very good book, 3 Wilson, 212. 5. FULL and correct report of the great commercial cause of Minet and Fector v. Gibson and Johnson, on fictitious indorsements, 8vo. 3 s. 6d. sewed.

6. GODFREY (Sam.); of bills of exchange called fictitious, 8vo.

1 s.

7. HAMBURGH. The laws of Hamburgh respecting bills of exchange, carefully copied from the original MS. in the archives of the senate of Hamburgh, and now first translated into English by G. T. Standfast, 8vo. (a pamphlet) 1805, 2s. 6d.

8. KYD's (Stewart) treatise on the law of bills and promissory notes, 8vo. Third edition, with an appendix,

1795, 5s.

9. Law of securities. Being a methodical treatise of all the laws and statutes relating to bills, obligations, bonds, and conditions, judgments, recognizances, securities, real and personal, &c. 8vo. 1722, 1723, 35.

[CH. XX. 10. LOVELASS'S (Peter) full, clear, and familiar explanation of the law of bills of exchange, promissory notes, &c. 8vo. 1789,

This is since republished under the following title:

3 s.

11. THE trader's safeguard; or, a full, clear, and familiar explanation of the law concerning bills of exchange, promissory notes, &c. with the mode of commencing and proceeding in personal actions, 3d edit. 8vo. 1796, 6 s. 6d.

12. MANNING's (E.) law of bills of exchange and promissory notes, 8vo. 3 s. 6d. sewed. 13. MARIUS (John) advice concerning bills of exchange, 12mo. 2d or 3d edit. the same, 1670, 1674, 2s. This is inserted, with other tracts, in the later editions of Malyne's Lex Mercatoria.

Holt, C. J. said Marius's book was a very good book; 2 Ld. Raym. 929, n. margin.

14. MAXWELL'S (J. I.) pocket dictionary of the law of bills of exchange, promissory notes, bank notes, checks, &c. with an appendix of acts, &c. 12mo. 1802, 5s. boards. 15. ROLLE'S (J.) pocket companion to the law and custom of bills of exchange and promissory notes, checks, drafts, &c. 1814, 2 s. 6d. boards.

12mo.

16. SCARLETT'S (John) style of exchanges; containing both their law and custom, as practised in the most considerable places of exchange in Europe, unfolding divers mysteries, and directing every person, however concerned in a bill of exchange, to what he ought to do and observe in any case, in order to his own security, 8vo. 1682; 2d edit. 1684, 2s. 6d.

17. THOMAS'S (M. and J. H.) synopsis of the law of bills of exchange and promissory notes, on a broad sheet, 1814, 5s. These subjects are treated of in Molloy de Jure Marit. Sect. V. No. 29, infra, and incidentally by the writers under Sect. I.

SECT. IV.

INSURANCE.

1. ANNESLEY'S (Alex.) compendium of the law of marine insurances, bottomry, insurances on lives, and of insurances against fire, in which the mode of calculating averages is defined and illustrated by examples, 8vo.

2. BURN'S (J. I.) practical treatise, or laws of marine insurances, 12mo.

1808, 6 s. boards. compendium of the 1801, 5s. boards.

3. LETTER from a gentleman of Gray's Inn to his correspondent, upon the case of a ship by policy insured to one port, but cleared out or consigned to a different port; or consigned to one port, but insured to a different port, (a pamphlet) 8vo. 1779, 2s.

4. MAGEN'S (Nich.) essay on insurances a collection of all the foreign ordinances of insurances, and forms of policies, translated into English, with all the English acts relating to insurances against fire, &c. with a summary of all the treaties of commerce between England and foreign powers, 2 vols. 4to. 1755, 2l. 2s.

This work was originally published at Hamburgh in the German language, but is much augmented in this edition.

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5. MARSHALL'S (Sam.) treatise on the law of insurance, in four books: I. of marine insurance; II. of bottomry and respondentia; III. of insurances upon lives; IV. of insurance against fire, second edit. 2 vols. roy. 8vo. 1808, 1l. 10s. boards; First edition, 2 vols. royal 8vo. 1802, 15s.

6. MILLAR (John, advocate in Scotl.) elements of the law relating to insurances, 8vo.

1787, 8s. 7. PARK'S (J. A. now Mr. just.) system of the law of marine insurances, with three chapters on bottomry, on insurances on lives, and on insurances against fire. 7th edit. with additions, 2 vols. royal 8vo. 1817, 1 l. 6s. boards. Sixth edition, royal 8vo. 1809, 15s.; 1802, 12s.; 1800, 10s: ; 1796, 8 s.; 1790, 6 s.; 1787, 5 s. 8. PARKER'S (Tho.) laws of shipping and insurances, with a digest of adjudged cases, all the acts of navigation, laws made for the increase of shipping and seamen, &c. 4to. 1775, 15 s.

9. REPORT of select committee of the house of commons to consider the 6th Geo. I. and of the state and means of effecting marine insurances, 8vo.

1810.

10. WESKETT'S (John) complete digest of the theory, law, and practice of insurance, compiled from the best authorities in different languages, with a preliminary discourse, wherein are delineated the very great disorders which prevail in affairs of insurance; their principal causes explained; and methods proposed for better regulation and prevention, fol. 1781, 2l. 2s.

The subject is also treated by Molloy de Jur. Mar. Sect. V. No. 29, infra, and incidentally by the writers under Sect. V.

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SECT. V.

MARITIME LAW.

1. ABBOT'S (Cha.) treatise of the law relative to merchant ships and seamen, in four parts, 8vo. 1802, 1804, 1808; 4th edit. 1812, 18 s. 6 d. Lord Eldon terms this an excellent work, 13 Ves. 599. 2. ABSTRACT of the sea laws established in most kingdoms of Europe, but more particularly in England and Scotland, 8vo. 1702, 2s. 6d.

3. ATCHESON'S (Nath.) report of the case Havelock v. Rockwood, respecting the captures of ships. See Chap. XXI. 4. ATCHESON'S (Nath.) American encroachments, 8vo. 1805, 9 s. boards.

5. ATCHESON'S (Nath.) collection of interesting and important reports and papers on the navigation and trade of Great Britain, Ireland, and the British colonies in the West Indies and America, with tables of tonnage and of exports, &c. 8vo. 1807, 14s. boards.

6. BURROUGH'S (sir John) sovereignty of the British seas, proved by records, &c. written in the year 1633, pr. 1651, 1729, 2 s. 7. CHALMERS'S (Geo.) opinions of eminent lawyers concerning the colonies, fisheries, and commerce of Great Britain, &c. 2 vols. 8vo. 1814, 1l. 4s. boards. 8. COLLECTION of public acts and papers relating to the principles of armed neutrality brought forward in the year 1780, and 1781, 8vo. 1801, 6s. boards. 9. CROKE's answer to Schlegel. See No. 42, infra. 10. DE DOMINIO maris, juribusque ad dominium præcipuè spectantibus, assertio brevis et methodica, 4to. Cosmopoli, 1615.

11. DE SUPERIORITATE maris Angliæ, et jure officii admiralitatis in eodem, temp. Edw. I.

An ancient and notable record (recited by Ld. Coke, 4th Inst、 142.) among the records in the Tower.

12. DODSON'S (J.) report of the judgment of sir W. Scott on the slave trade. See Chap. XXI.

13. EXTON's maritime dicæology. See Chap. IX. Sect. II. ante, No. 9, p. 243.

14. GENERAL treatise of naval trade and commerce, as founded on the laws and statutes of this realm, under proper heads, compiled from the several acts of parliament and cases determined at Westminster, and brought down to the present time, 2 vols. 8vo. (1738, 1739, 1740, 8s.) 1753, 12 s.

15. GENERAL treatise of the dominion of the sea; and a complete body of the sea laws, including those of Oleron, Wisby, the Hanse Towns, &c.: with several discourses concerning the jurisdiction of the admiralty, and adjudged cases relating to trade and navigation; in which are explained the laws and customs of merchants in cases of bottomry, insurances, &c. 3d edit. with additions; 4to. no date,

10 s. 6d.

16. HALE'S (L. Ch. J.) treatise in three parts, de jure maris et brachiorum ejusdem de portibus maris, and concerning the customs of goods imported and exported. See Hargrave's tracts, Ch. XIV. No. 43, ante.

17. HORNE'S (Thomas Hartwell) compendium of the statute law and regulations of the court of admiralty relative to ships of war, privateers, prizes, recapture, and prize money, with an appendix of precedents, 12mo. 1803, 4 s. 6 d. boards.

18. JENKINSON's (late earl of Liverpool) discourse on the conduct of Great Britain in respect to neutral nations (relating to the law of captures,) 8vo. 1758, 1801, 2 s. 6d. sewed. Also in collection of treaties, &c. 3 vols. 8vo. See No. 26, p. 194, ante.

1785.

19. K. EDGAR's charter. This antient record is much relied on by the writers in favour of the claim of England to the dominion of the sea, and is printed in Selden's Mare Clausum, lib. xi. and in pref. to 4th Rep. with a translation. The original is still extant in the Harleian collection of MSS. in the British Museum (No. 7513): it is preserved in a wooden box lined with green velvet, in form of a large folio book, in red morocco, within which it is placed upon a green silk cushion, and covered with a large plute of glass.

20. LAWS of Oleron.

These seem to have been first printed in England, under the title of

THE RUTTER of the sea, with the havens, rodes, soundings, kennyngs, wyndes, floads, and ebbas, daungers, and coasts of divers regions; with the laws of the Isle of Auleron, and the judgments of the sea, with a rutter of the north added to the same; translated and printed by William Copland, with a prologue of the printer's, 12mo.

2s. 6d.

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