Α TREATISE ON ADMIRALTY AND PRIZE: TOGETHER WITH SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR THE GUIDE AND GOVERNMENT MARITIME WARS. BY DAVID ROBERTS. 71323 NEW YORK: PUBLISHED BY HURD AND HOUGHTON. Cambridge: Riverside Press. 1869. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts. CCEAN'S P6 437 t RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED BY H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY. PREFACE. THE present work is about to be committed to the profession and public, with the hope that it may accomplish the Author's design and plan, and become a useful and readable Law Book. If it have the effect upon any student, ambitious to excel in his profession, to stimulate to labor and incite him to the requisite study, it will be some compen sation. If it find moderate favor on its mission, that will furnish encouragement to future improvement; and to this end, the Author announces that any seasonable suggestions from the kindly disposed, or candid criticisms of the profession, will be cordially welcomed. |