A COMPENDIOUS VIEW OF THE CIVIL LAW, AND OF THE LAW OF THE ADMIRALTY, BEING THE SUBSTANCE OF A Course of Lectures READ IN THE UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN, BY ARTHUR BROWNE, LL.D. S.F.T.C.D. PROFESSOR OF CIVIL LAW IN THAT UNIVERSITY, AND REPRE- FIRST AMERICAN FROM THE SECOND LONDON EDITION, WITH VOL. II. CONTAINING THE VIEW OF THE ADMIRALTY LAW. W. J. Liber New York: HALSTED AND VOORHIES, LAW BOOKSELLERS, CORNER OF NASSAU AND CEDAR STREETS. 1840. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR WILLIAM SCOTT, KNT. JUDGE OF THE HIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY, &c. &c. &c. WHOSE SUPERIOR KNOWLEDGE AND UNRIVALLED ADMINISTRATION OF THE CIVIL LAW, AND OF THE LAW OF NATIONS, WHILE THEY REFLECT THE BRIGHTEST LUSTRE ON THOSE SCIENCES, PROVE, BEYOND ALL OTHER EXAMPLES, THEIR GREAT UTILITY, THIS WORK IS MOST HUMBLY DEDICATED, BY HIS VERY OBEDIENT SERVANT, THE AUTHOR. PREFACE TO THE SECOND VOLUME. It is a remarkable truth, that while these countries have been super-eminently conspicuous in naval grandeur, power and importance, and the law which governs the courts of admiralty proportionably interesting, no general elementary treatise upon that subject has appeared for more than a century. Those of Exton, Zouch, and Godolphin, learned and able as they are, were composed while the contests between the courts of common law and admiralty were at their height, and the limits of the jurisdiction of the latter totally unsettled. To shew that they still are not altogether settled by the rules of right reason, is one object of the present treatise; but |