A Treatise On The Rights And Duties Of Merchant Seamen PDF Download

Excerpt from A Treatise on the Rights and Duties of Merchant Seamen: According to the General Maritime Law, and the Statues of the United States The writer of this Treatise is no friend to the multiplication of law books. Yet he finds himself, at an early period, again about to commit to the public a legal publication, which, though it may need little in the way of introduction, to claim for its subject a ready attention, may require much in the way of apology for the manner in which it is treated. Having taken the persons employed in navigation out of the general law of Shipping, I sought to trace their rights and duties back to those venerable codes of the sea, in which the spirit of a thorough jurisprudence, such as might well relieve the middle ages of Europe from the epithet of "dark," seems to have been fully equal to all the wants of maritime affairs, as they existed at the time, and scarcely falls short of satisfying the exigencies of modern commerce. The pleasure of these investigations richly compensated for any labor. 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.