The maritime dicæologie, or, Sea-jurisdiction of England
Subtitle: In three books ...
By: By John Exton, Doctor of Laws, and Judge of his Majesty's High Court of Admiralty
Edition: The second edition / to which is added, the report at large of a case lately determined in his Majesty's Court of King's Bench, concerning the jurisdiction of the Admiralty Coroner and the County Coroner.
Publisher: Sold by J. Worrall, at the Dove in Bell-Yard, near Lincoln's Inn
Published: 1755
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
Subjects: England and Wales; Early works to 1800; England and Wales. Admiralty; Maritime law
Other titles: Maritime dicaeologie; Sea-jurisdiction of England
Notes: "Whitehall Aug. 13, 1664. Let this book be printed. Henry Bennett"--T.p. verso.

"A reissue of the sheets of the first edition, of 1746, which was printed by William Bowyer, with a cancel title leaf and the addition of vi p. following p. xvi"--Cf. ESTC.

Signatures: a⁴ ²a⁸(-a1) B-2C⁸ 2D².

ESTC T130727
Table of contents: title: (from t.p.): I. Setting forth the antiquity of the Admiralty in England, proving the same to have been settled before Edward the Third's time, shewing the beginning of the sea laws. The laws of Oleron. The King of England's dominion over the British seas. The sea laws of the Grecians, Romans, &c. and the power of the Admiral of Scotland; title: II. Proving the ports, havens, and creeks of the sea to be within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty, from the Rhodian laws, the laws of Oleron, and several antient records and adjudications as well in England as in other nations; title: III. Shewing that all contracts concerning maritime affairs are within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty, and there cognizable, from the antient statutes of the Admiralty, the laws of Oleron, several antient records in the Tower, Chancery, &c. And arguments to the contrary drawn from several statutes, &c. answered."