The Archive · 1920

MARITIME LAW

The Freedom of the Seas

Morgan Ogilvie, x.a-Ca).

Professor Ogilvie has written a notable' book. In his opening essay ho explains the essential relation of waterways to international communication, and thence traces the evolution of Maritime Law from Babylon to Versailles.

The navigation laws of Babylon recognized the international character of the Euphrates as a waterway, but the Jaw of nations as enforced by Carthage decreed that all strangers who traded by sea towards the Pillars of Hercules should be drowned. It was not

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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