Manuscripta juridica

NAVIGATIO Tractatus de dominio maris .

[{i}Author's name is only stated at end of dedication:{/i}] Guilielmus Welwod.

[{i}Title page:{/i}] De dominio maris, iuribusque ad dominium praecipue spectantibus assertio brevis et methodica. Cosmopoli [{i}= London{/i}]: Excudebat G. Fonti-Silvius [{i}the Latin words translate: 'William of the well in the wood printed this', but it was actually Thomas Creede who printed the book for him{/i}]. 16. Calend. Ianuar. 1615 [{i}= 1614/12/17{/i}]. [{i}Available in electronic storage under http://eebo.chadwyck.com. A second edition was printed in the Netherlands, in The Hague:{/i} Hagae-Comitum 1653].

A treatise on the regime of the sea, and in particular of coastal waters. It frequently quotes the Corpus iuris civilis, less frequently the Corpus iuris canonici, and some Jus Commune authors - see below. The work attacked an opinion expressed by Hugo Grotius, Mare liberum, 1609. Grotius wrote a reply, which is preserved in manuscript.

[{i}Chapters:{/i}] 1 Dominia esse in mari, eaque distincta ... 2 Ius navigandi in mari non esse omnibus modo liberum ... 3 Ius piscandi maxima parte appropriatum esse.

[{i}Authors quoted:{/i}] (pag. 5) Baldus (de Ubaldis), in Codicem; (Philippus) Decius, in Decretales [!{i}garbled{/i}]; Joannes Andreae, in Decretales; Dominicus de sancto Geminiano, in Decretales; Christophorus Wincesterus, Consilia; Bartolus (de Saxoferrato), in tractatu de insula; (Bartholomaeus) Caepolla, in tractatu de servitutibus; (pag. 9) Bartolus (de Saxoferrato) per l. Caesar, de public. [D.39.4.15], et ad l. Inter eos, de acqu. rer. dom. [D.41.1.29]; (pag. 10) Bartolus (de Saxoferrato), in tractatu Tyberiadis; (Bartholomaeus) Caepolla, in tractatu de servitutibus; (pag. 11) Bardelonius [{i}garbled name{/i}], Consilia; (pag. 11) again Caepolla, tractatus de servitutibus; (pag. 13) Baldus (de Ubaldis), Qui feudum dare possint [LF 1.1]; Petrus Gregorius, (Syntagma iuris), lib. 29

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Author(s):

• William Welwood

No. of pages: (item 1)