| LOCATION | Edinburgh, NL Scotland |
| MANUSCRIPT | Edinburgh, NL Scotland, Adv.MS.24.2.3 |
| ITEM No. 7 | NAVIGATIO Treatise on sea law |
NAVIGATIO Treatise on sea law
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NAVIGATIO Treatise on sea law .
Maybe copied from Practicks (general digest of law, systematic), by James Balfour of Pittendreich
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No. of pages: Vol. 3 pag. 728-756
Rubric: Schip lawes collectit furth of the Acts of Parliament, the practiques, and the lawes of Aleroun and old lawes of Wisbie, and the constitutiones of Francis King of France, anno 1554, 1557.
[{i}Headings:{/i}] Off makeing of schips (16 chapters). Of frauchting ships (5 chapters). Of laidening of shippes, tit. 4 (4 chapters). Of makeing saill (2 chapters). Off casting of goods and seawrack (9 chapters). Off arryveing, dischargeing and lousin of ships (6 chapters). Off hurt done be ane shipp to another (4 chapters). Off the fluide mark (3 chapters) ... [{i}several more headings to follow{/i}] ... Off the Admirall, his office and jurisdictione (47 chapters). The lawes and statutes aggreeit upon and observit betuixt this realme and England dureing the tyme of the trewis, amitie and peace concerning the sea affaires. Annent Scotsmen useing the priviledge of the natione in the Low Countreyes under the King of Spaine dominione. Ja. 6, fol. 19, act 32, 20 October 1579 [{i}This obsolete last chapter lacks in the printed edition, but is present in MSS, for instance in Adv.MS.24.2.4b{/i}]