Reprint of the first and only English translation of Roccus'
treatise on maritime law, which was first published in 1655. This
manual is very highly esteemed by commercial lawyers in all
countries, for its compressed, methodical, and accurate learning,
and is a book of high authority.-- Marvin, Legal Bibliography
(1847) 616 Roccus'] works are of more practical use to an English
lawyer, than all the other maritime works with one exception]...
Lord Mansfield is under no inconsiderable obligation to them. --
Joseph Story, Literature of Maritime Law, in The Miscellaneous
Writings of Joseph Story, 108-109 (W. Story, editor) Translated and
edited by Joseph Reed Ingersoll 1786-1868], a member of the U.S.
House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional
district from 1835-1849 and served as Chairman, United States House
Committee on the Judiciary (Thirtieth Congress) (1847-1849). He
later became U.S. Minister to Britain. Francesco] Rocco Roccus] fl.
1655] was "an eminent jurist of the city of Naples, and one of the
judges of the Magna Curia, or supreme court of that kingdom. He
flourished about the middle of the seventeenth century, and his two
treatises, on ships and freight, and on insurance, were first
published at Naples in the year 1655. Since that period, several
editions have been printed in various parts of the continent of
Europe; among these, one of the most esteemed is the edition
published at Amsterdam in the year 1708, by the learned Westerween,
from which the following translation has been made." Preface,
Joseph Reed Ingersoll].
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