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SHAW AND

LONDON:

SEP 25

ATUB ARY

SONS, FETTER LANE,

Law Printers and Publishers.

LONDON: PRINTED BY SHAW AND SONS, FETTER LANE.

OCEANS

70

GB

A1313m

1867

TO

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

3

JOHN HENRY, LORD TENTERDEN,

BARON TENTERDEN, OF HENDON,

IN THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX,

This Edition

OF THE

TREATISE OF THE LAW OF MERCHANT SHIPS

AND SEAMEN

IS WITH PERMISSION INSCRIBED

BY

HIS MUCH OBLIGED SERVANT,

WILLIAM SHEE.

ADVERTISEMENT

ΤΟ

THIS EDITION.

IN the five last editions of this work, the Editor did his best, by the use of asterisks at the commencement and at the end of the additions made by him, to prevent the inconvenience of their being referred to in argument, as matter written by the Author, or by his son, the Editor of the fifth and last of the editions, published in the Author's life-time.

This endeavour, owing in some degree to the relaxation of the rule, which discourages the citation in the Superior Courts, of passages from the works of practising barristers, but in part also to the care taken by the Editor to incorporate into his additions, the very words of Lord Tenterden, and of other learned judges, delivering judgment in the cases referred to, had been found unavailing.

With the exception of one passage (a) composed by the Author, and one, the only one of his composition which the Editor had ventured to alter, to be speedily restored by him, in submission to the opinion of the Court of Queen's Bench (6), he is not aware that the law, as laid down by Lord Tenterden, or offered in any edition of this work, to the acceptance of the profession, has been authoritatively questioned,

The purpose

for which the asterisks were employed may (b) See note (u) p. 542.

(a) See note (p) p. 78.

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