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The Daily Dispatch: October 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], Privateering — its history, law, and Usage. (search)
pt to reduce the practice of warfare on the sea to those principles which could be recognized as equitable between different nations, is to be found in the Consolate del Mare, the first edition of which was published at Catalan in 1494. Giannoni, in his history of Naples, carries back the period of the compilation of this work to the years between 1,250 and 1,266; but Pardessus, with more certainty, fixes it at the concluding portion of the fourteenth century, and the locality the city of Barcelona, where the dialect in which it was written is still spoken. These are not, according to this writer, to be considered a set of laws promulgated by the authority of one or several Governments, but as a record of the customs in use among the nations bordering upon the Mediterranean. The knowledge displayed by its author of the Roman law, as well as of that of France, Spain and Italy, and the justice and equity of its decisions, caused it to be speedily adopted by the nations bordering upon