THE LAWS OF WAR, AFFECTING COMMERCE AND SHIPPING

by


H. BYERLEY THOMSON, ESQ., B.A.

Barrister-at-Law, of Jesus College, Cambridge, and the Inner Temple

A New Edition, Enlarged, With An Introduction And Index

1854







PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.


The success which attended the publication of the First Edition of
this Treatise, on "The Laws of War, affecting Commerce and Shipping,"
has confirmed the author's opinion of the utility of such a work; and
its hearty acceptance by the mercantile world has induced him to add
largely and materially to this edition. The general plan of the former
work has not been departed from in the first portion of the present;
and although a great number of fresh and popular topics have been here
touched upon, the author has endeavoured to preserve (as far as was