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A TREATISE OF THE LAW:
Relative to: MERCHANT SHIPS AND SEAMAN: In Four Parts; I. Of The Owners Of Merchant Ships; II. Of The Persons Employed In The Navigation Thereof; III. Of The Carriage Of Goods Therein; IV. Of The Wages Of Merchant Seaman. By C. Abbott The Fifth Edition, Edited With The Permission Of The Author, By John Henry Abbott, of the Inner Temple, Barrister At Law. With Additions and with Copies of the Registry, Navigation, and Pilot Acts, and the Acts Relating to Salvage and Seamen's Wages, Etc. London: Joseph Butterworth & Son, Law Booksellers, 1827. Fifth edition, revised and expanded. 1827 date printed to the title page. This very thorough work includes a bounty of descriptive cases, and detailed rules, laws and examples in regards to ship owners, payment of freight, labor wages, differing punishments acceptable for various acts by employees and seaman, duties, repairs, chartering, stoppage of transit, cargo, navigation, piloting, forfeiting wages, salvaging, and much more. A sturdily preserved, decently attractive, and quite usable antiquarian book. Inner hinges cracked--still holding, end-papers and preliminary pages foxed and age-toned, two small chips to the upper spine edge, fine-line surface cracks to the spine, rub-wear at the spine joints, lower shelf-edges, and corner edges, else good in three-quarter chestnut-brown polished calf leather over marbled boards with W. Moffitt's printed bindery label tipped-on the upper corner of the inside cover. Octavo; 693 pages; 13 appendixes; index; plus preface to the first edition; plus "Advertisement"; plus index of cases cited; plus contents pages. |