Excerpt from Treatise on Maritime Law

The object of the following work is to embody the principles of tho Maritime Law, upon the subjects which it embraces.

In stating doctrines, the author has freely employed the very language of the Reports, those original fountains of the law, and has endeavored to illustrate principles by a liberal recital of the cases, where they have been either established or applied.

The decisions of the common-law Courts, which are cited in various parts of the work, have in most instances, expounded the maritime law, in a free and enlightened spirit, and furnish a safe guide to those tribunals, whose special province it is to administer that branch of our jurisprudence.

With an anxious desire to make the work acceptable to the Profession, the author is sensible that he may have failed to supply a want, which it is supposed to feel, or to satisfy its enlightened judgment. He submits it, however, to its indulgence, and with the hope that it may in some measure prove to be useful.

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