Excerpt from A Compendious View of the Civil Law, and of the Law of the Admiralty, Vol. 2: Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures Read in the University of Dublin; Containing the View of the Admiralty Law IT is a remarkable truth, that while theft: countries have been fuper-eminently confpi cows in naval grandeur, power and impor C lance, and the law which governs the courts of admiralty pr0portionabl y interefting, no general elementary treatife upon that fubje t has appear ed for more than a century. Thofe of Exton, Zouch, and Godolphin, learned and able as they are, were compofed while the contefis between the courts of common law and ad miralty were at their height, and the limits of the jurifdi tion of the latter totally unfettled. To fbew that they filll are not gether fettled by the rules of right rea. 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.