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OF

CASES

ARGUED AND DETERMINED

IN THE

HIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY;

COMMENCING WITH THE

JUDGMENTS

OF

THE RIGHT HON. SIR WILLIAM SCOTT,

Trinity Term 1811.

By JOHN DODSON, LL.D. Advocate.

Eo magis neceffaria eft hæc opera quod et noftro fæculo non defunt, et olim
non defuerunt, qui hanc juris partem ita contemnerent, quafi nihil ejus præter
inane nomen exifteret.-Grotius.

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THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

JOHN LORD SHEFFIELD,

BARON SHEFFIELD OF SHEFFIELD,

IN THE COUNTY OF YORK,

AND OF DUNAMORE AND ROSCOMMON IN THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND, ONE OF HIS MAJESTY'S MOST HONOURABLE PRIVY COUNCIL,

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ADVERTISEMENT.

THE following pages contain an attempt to continue the Reports of Cases argued and determined in the High Court of Admiralty, upon the same plan on which the proceedings of that Court have been hitherto recorded. The Editor is well aware that the excellence of the Reports for which the Public is indebted to his learned predecessors, Sir Christopher Robinson and Dr. Edwards, has rendered his task more difficult; but though he cannot venture to hope that his efforts have been equally successful with theirs, yet he trusts that the inconvenience which must have arisen from an entire discontinuance of the publication has been prevented, and that the utility of his undertaking will in some degree compensate for the defects in its execution. The Public may rest assured, that great care has been taken to state correctly all the facts upon which the decisions of the Court have been founded, and to preserve without diminution or addition all the legal principles which have

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