Three Books on the Law of the Sea and of Shipping

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Original title: De iure maritimo et navali libri tres A systematic Latin treatise on the law of the sea and of shipping, published at Stockholm from the press of Johannes Janssonius the Younger. Organized in three books, it moves from the public-juridical status of the sea and the right of navigation, through the law of ports, admiralty, insurance, and the maritime loan, to the private law of maritime contracts, delicts, and procedure. Drawing on Roman nautical law, Swedish and neighboring statutes, and the medieval Leges Wisbyenses, it argues that the law of the sea is public law resting on natural equity and divine law, and elevates the Laws of Wisby to a normative authority comparable to the Rhodian Sea Law. Its argument is disciplined throughout by the fourfold standard of natural, gentile, divine, and civil law and by a comparative-eclectic method Loccenius likens to the bee gathering nectar from flowers of every kind. 👉 Read our introductory primer, full report, and finding guide here 📜 View the original source file This text was transcribed and translated as part of the ExLatinis project—an effort by Leo to make English translations of every published text in Latin in early modern Europe (between 1450 and 1750) available to the public for free online.

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Ioan. LOCCENTVS de Iure MARITIMO HOLMIAE Ex officina Ianssoniana. Anno 1651. BIBLIOTEA NAZI ROMA VITTORIO EMANUELI