A Treatise on Maritime Law: Including the Law of Shipping, the Law of Marine Insurance, and the Law and Practice of Admiralty. 2 Vols.

by Theophilus Parsons

A LANDMARK TREATISE ON MARITIME LAW Originally Little, Brown and Company, 1859. Two volumes. Reprint of the first edition. This impressive treatise was a landmark work because it was the first to consider the law of shipping, the law of marine insurance and the law and practice of admiralty
as interconnected aspects of maritime law. It also includes an
extensive list of United States statutes relating to commercial and
maritime matters and the rules of practice for United States Courts
of Admiralty and Maritime jurisdiction. In sum, this work offers an
unparalleled contemporary overview of the subject by one of the
most important American legal scholars of the period.

1750 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 2004

About the author

Theophilus Parsons was Dane Professor of Law at Harvard from 1848 to 1870.
Parsons is remembered chiefly as the author of a series of useful legal treatises and some books in support of Swedenborgian doctrines.
He is the son of Theophilus Parsons