Of the dominion or ownership of the sea two books : in the first is shew'd that the sea, by the lavv of nature or nations, is not common to all men, but capable of private dominion or proprietie, as well as the land : in the second is proved that the dominion of the British sea, or that which incompasseth the isle of Great Britain is, and ever hath been, a part or appendant of the empire of that island writen at first in Latin, and entituled, Mare clausum, seu, De dominio maris, by John Selden, Esquire ; translated into English and set forth with som additional evidences and discourses, by Marchamont Nedham.
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Of the dominion or ownership of the sea two books : in the first is shew'd that the sea, by the lavv of nature or nations, is not common to all men, but capable of private dominion or proprietie, as well as the land : in the second is proved that the dominion of the British sea, or that which incompasseth the isle of Great Britain is, and ever hath been, a part or appendant of the empire of that island writen at first in Latin, and entituled, Mare clausum, seu, De dominio maris, by John Selden, Esquire ; translated into English and set forth with som additional evidences and discourses, by Marchamont Nedham.
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Selden, John, 1584-1654.
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London :: Printed by William Du-Gard ...,
1652.
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Maritime law -- Early works to 1800.
Freedom of the seas -- Early works to 1800.
Great Britain -- Commercial policy -- 17th century.
"Of the dominion or ownership of the sea two books : in the first is shew'd that the sea, by the lavv of nature or nations, is not common to all men, but capable of private dominion or proprietie, as well as the land : in the second is proved that the dominion of the British sea, or that which incompasseth the isle of Great Britain is, and ever hath been, a part or appendant of the empire of that island writen at first in Latin, and entituled, Mare clausum, seu, De dominio maris, by John Selden, Esquire ; translated into English and set forth with som additional evidences and discourses, by Marchamont Nedham." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A59088.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 26, 2024.
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FIfthly, the Rhodians held the Sea, as Lords d XXIII years. And hereupon eStrabo commend's their industrie in matter of Navigation, who saith, Rhodes was soveraign Ladie of the Sea a long time, and suppressed Pirates. In the Latine of Eusebius, the Rhodians are ••aid to have been the fourth in order that were Lords of the Sea. But in the Greek, that they were the fourth Lords of the Sea, and according to som, the fifth. Whence this difference arose, appear's by that which hath been said about the Pelasgi. Of all the antient Lords of the Sea the Rhodians are most re∣nowned; chiefly in this respect, because the Sea-Laws which were used and in full force and virtue in both the Empires, were borrowed from them, and put into the Digests by Justinian. Saith the Emperor An∣toninus to Eudaemon of Nicomediaf, Lege Rhodiorum de∣cidantur lites Nauticae, Let Suits about Navi∣gation bee decided according to the Law of the Rhodians. And by the Testimonie of Con∣stantinus Harmenopulus a g Judg of Thessalonica, they are the most antient of all Sea-Laws, that have not been lost. They were taken into use among the Romanes from the time of hTiberius. Their beginnings are placed about the Reign of Jehosaphat: But the Rhodians are wholly omitted both by Marianus and Florentius.