"""Though the marine law of modern Europe had its foundations laid in the jurisprudence of the ancients, there is no certain evidence that either the Phoenician

This edition of Commentaries on American Law is an unabridged republication of the first edition published in New York between 1826 and 1830

"""It requires great experience, as well as the command of a perspicuous diction, to frame a law in such clear and precise terms as to secure it from ambiguous

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