2. Baker (Sir S.) The Office of Vice Admiral of the Coast, being some account of that Ancient Office. 4to. (Privately printed.) 1884 Contents: Early Maritime Jurisdiction. Sessions of the Vice-Admiral. Criminal and Civil Procedure. Appointment of Vice-Admirals. Jurisdiction of the Vice-Admiral. Vice-Admirals of Scotland, Ireland, and British Possessions. 3. Black Book of the Admiralty, with Appendix. Edited by Sir T. Twiss. 4 vols. 8vo. 1871-76 The first portion is divided into four parts and consists of Ordinances and Articles of Inquiry in old French which probably date from about 1340 to the latter end of that century The fifth part is a treatise on Procedure. The Latin Articles De Officio Admiralitatis," translated by Rowghton, form the sixth division. The seventh division contains various official documents connected with the admiralty of the Earl of Huntingdon and extend over a period of three years from May, 1443. The three remaining divisions contain The Statutes and Ordinaunces to be keped in time of werre,' "Wager of Battel," and "De Materia Duelli. 1840 Browne (Arthur) Civil Law and the Law of the Admiralty. 1895 "When Admirals and an Admiralty Court first appear in the records, the Warden of the Ports was the Admiral, and in all probability his Court was the first tribunal in which a law of the sea, as distinguished from the common law of England, was recognised and administered. The early history of prize law is inseparable from that of the Cinque Ports."-Marsden, Doc. rel. Sea Law. Clerke or Clarke (F.) Praxis Curie Admiralitatis Angliæ. 12mo., (8) + 45+ (20) pp., 1667; (3) + iv. + 58 + (16) pp., 12mo., 1679; edit. 3a, Latin and English, (3) +91 +(6) pp., 16mo., 1722; Prioribus omnibus editionibus auctior; cui adjiciuntur Articuli Magistri Rowghton ad Officium Admiralitatis Angliæ, etc. spectantes, (24) + 178 [194] + (6) pp., 12mo., 1743; edit. 5a, (3) + iv + 183 pp., 12mo., 1798; Latin and English, 24 [20] + 288 pp., 12mo. 1829 It was also translated by J. E. Hall and forms part of his treatise upon the Law and Practice of Admiralty. 8vo., Baltimore, 1809. 1 Kent Comm. 380n.; 2 Hoffman, Leg. Study, 470; Reddie Mar. Com. 421; 1 Atk. 296; 3 T. R. 338. 7. De Officio Admiralitatis Angliæ una cum articulis concernentibus idem officium. Translated from the old French, with additions by Thomas Rowghton. 4to. (?) 1540 12 leaves, no title page. Said to have been printed for the use of the Admiralty only. 8. Exton (J.) Maritime Dicaeologie; or Sea Jurisdiction of England. Editions, fol., 1664; 8vo., 1741; 8vo., 1746; xvi + vi + 404 pp., 8vo. 1755 In three books-I. Setting forth the Antiquity of the Admiralty in England. II. Proving the Ports, Havens, and Creeks of the Sea to be within the Jurisdiction of the Admiralty. III. Shewing that all Contracts concerning Maritime Affairs are within the Jurisdiction of the Admiralty, and there cognoscible. 9. Extracts from Godolphin, Sea Laws, Jenkins, Malyne, Zouch and Exton, of all parts of those treatises which relate to the Admiralty Jurisdiction in cases of Contracts. 8vo. Boston. 1826 10. Godolphin (J.) View of the Admiral Jurisdiction, as also divers of the Laws, Customs, Rights and Privileges of the High Admiralty of England, [with] appendix: Extract of the Ancient Laws of Oleron [and Catalogue of such as have been dignified with the office of Lord High Admiral]. (52) + 207 + (15) pp., 16mo., 1661. 2nd edit., (56) + 230 + (20) pp., 12mo. 1685 11. Hall (J. E.) Practice and Jurisdiction of the Court of Admiralty, in three parts. 1. Historical Examination of the Civil Jurisdiction of the Court of Admiralty. 2. Translation of Clerke's Praxis, with notes on the Jurisdiction and Practice of the District Courts. 3. Collection of Precedents. xxviii+ iv + 211 + (5) pp. 8vo. Baltimore. 1809 12. Jenkins (Sir L.) Argument on the Statute of 13 R. II. concerning the Jurisdiction of the Admiralty before the House of Lords, in answer to Lord Chief Justice Vaughan. (In Wynne's Life of Sir Leoline Jenkins, 2 vols., 1724.) 13. Laws, Ordinances, and Institutions of the Admiralty of Great Britain, Civil and Military, containing (1) Such Ancient Naval Laws and Customs as are still in use. (2) An abstract of the Statutes in force. (3) The Marine Treaties at large. (4) A critical Account of Naval Affairs and Commerce from the reign of Alfred, etc. 2 vols. 8vo. 14. Monumenta Juridica. Black Book of the appendix; edited by Sir Travers Fac-sims. 8vo. (Rolls Series.) 1746, 1767 Admiralty, with Twiss. 4 vols. 1871-76 Supposed to have been compiled in the reign of Edword I. It contains some old Admiralty statutes of the reigns of Richard I., John and Edward I., regulations concerning the office of Lord High Admiral, etc. 15. Rowghton or Roughton (Thomas) Articuli ad Officium Admiralitatis Angliæ, etc. spectantes, è Libro Nigro Admiralitatis recogniti. [Translata à Linguâ Gallicanâ Latinam.] Appended to Clerke, F., Praxis Supremæ Curiæ Admiralitatis, 1743, pp. 107-178; also in editions of 1798, pp. 91-166, and 1829, pp. 151-221. See also Selden's Notes on Fortescue, ch. 32, and Exton's Sea Laws, ch. 13. The translation is supposed to have been made in the reign of Henry VI. See Twiss, Intro. to Black Book, xxvi. 16. Spelman (Sir H.) Admiral Jurisdiction. See Spelman's English Works and Reliquiæ. 17. Zouch (R.) Jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England asserted against Sr. E. Coke's Articuli Admiralitatis in XXII. Chapter of his Jurisdiction of Courts. (16) + 152 pp. 16mo. 1663, 1683, 1685 And in Extracts from Godolphin, etc., 1826, and Malyne's Lex Mercatoria, 1686. 18. View of the Admiralty Jurisdiction, with the Privileges of the Court, etc. 8vo. 1661 Sect. X. (a).-CASES IN ADMIRALTY. 1. Burrell (Sir W.) Reports, Court of Admiralty and upon Appeal, [England], 1758-74, with extracts from the books, and records of the Court of Admiralty and the Court of the Judges Delegates, 1584-1839, and Cases and Opinions upon Admiralty matters, 1701-81; edited by R. G. Marsden. ix + 415 pp. 8vo. 1885 2. Marsden (R. G.) Select Pleas in the Court of Admiralty. 2 vols. 4to. (Selden Society Publications, 6, 11.) 1894-97 1. Court of the Admiralty of the West, 1390-1404, and High Court of Admiralty, 1527-45. 2. High Court of Admiralty, 1547-1602. 3. Wynne (W.) Life of Sir Leoline Jenkins; and a compleat series of Letters. 2 vols. Fol. 1724 The want of professional reports of cases decided in these times in the high court of admiralty and prize appeal court of England is in some measure supplied by the very judicious reports and letters which, in the intervals between 1663 and 1680, Sir Leoline was called upon to address to King Charles II. and his privy council and to the lords commissioners of prizes."-Reddie, p. 170. Sect. XI.-COURT OF REQUESTS. 1. Acts, orders, and decrees made by the king and his counsel, remaining amongst the records of the court of requests, from 9 Hen. VII. to 27 Eliz. 4to. [By Sir Julius Cæsar.] 2. n.d. Cæsar (Sir Julius) Antient state, authority and proceedings of the court of requests. 162 pp. 4to. 1596, 1597 3. Leadam (I. S.) Select Cases in the Court of Requests, 1497-1569. cxxiv + 257 pp. 4to. (Selden Society, v. 12.) 1898 With an introduction on the history, procedure and decline of the Court of Poor Men's Causes. 1. Sect. XII.-COURT OF WARDS AND LIVERIES. Case of Orphans consider'd from antiquity, with some remarks on our Courts of Wards, as also on the Court of Chancery having the disposition of orphans money. 64 pp. 4to. 1725 Commission, with instructions and directions granted by his majesty to the master and counsel of the court of wards and liveries, for compounding for wards, idiots, and lunatics, 23 Feb. 1617; 4to., 1617. Ditto, 11 Dec. 1618; (2) + 30 pp., 4to., 1618 (3 edits.). Ditto, 21 Aug. 1622; 4to. 1622 3. Instructions and directions given by his majestie 9 Jan. 1610 to the Master and Counsell of the Court of Wards and Liveries; 4to., 1610. Ditto, newly imprinted, with additions bearing date 7 Feb., 4to., 1610. Ditto, with additions bearing date 6 Nov. 1617, 4to. 1617 5. 4. Lawes and Statutes of Liveries. 8vo. Tottell.. 1571, 1573 Ley (Sir J.) Reports of Resolutions in Law arising upon cases in the Court of Wards and other courts at Westminster, [1608-29, with a treatise concerning Wards and Liveries]. (4) + 83 + (7) + 27 pp. Fol. 1659 Pages 1 to 66 contain cases in the Court of Wards, 66 to 69 cases in the Star Chamber, and 69 to 83 cases in the King's Bench. Treatise concerning Wards and Liveries. 6. 1641; 12mo. (Also appended to his Reports, etc., 1659.) 12mo., 1642 CHAPTER XII. CRIMINAL COURTS AND LAW. INCLUDING TRIALS. See also ch. ii., s. 20. Sect. I.-LAW. Amos (A.) Ruins of Time exemplified in Hale's History of the Pleas of the Crown. xxviii + 268 pp. 8vo. 1856 A summary and review of Hale's History in the light of changes in the law since Hale wrote, and a plea for a criminal code. An appendix contains an account of the Manuscripts of the History and some unpublished passages. 2. Animadversions upon the modern explanation of 11 Hen. 7, cap. I.; or a King de facto. [By J. Collier.] 8 pp. 8vo. n.d. 3. Atkins (Sir R.) Enquiry into the Power of dispensing with Penal Statutes, with animadversions upon a book by Sir Edw. Herbert, entituled a Short Account of the Authorities in Law, upon which Judgement was given in Sir Edw. Hale's Case. 58 pp. Fol. Also in his Parliamentary and Political Tracts. 4. Bacon (F.) Cases of Treason. (4) + 35 pp. 4to. 1689 1641 Also appended to Holborne's Readings upon the Statute of 25 Ed. 3, cap. 2, 1680, pp. 73-141; in Bacon's Law Tracts; and in Harleian Miscellany, vol. 5, 1810, pp. 12-29. 5. Cherry (R. R.) Lectures on the Growth of Criminal Law in Ancient Communities. xi + 123 pp. 8vo. 1890 6. Coke (Sir Edward) Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England; concerning High Treason and other Pleas of the Crown, and Criminall Causes. (9) + 243 + (2) pp., port., 4to., 1644; (10) + 243 + (18) pp., fol., 1648; (10) + 243 + (18) pp., port., fol., 1660; 4th edit., (8) + 243 + (18) pp., fol., 1669; 5th edit., |