ZOUCH[E], Richard

The jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England asserted, against Sr. Edward Coke's Articuli Admiralitatis, in XXII chapter of his Jurisdiction of Courts.

London, printed for Francis Tyton, and Thomas Dring, and are to be sold at their shops in Fleetstreet. 1663 8vo., (16) + 152pp., hardly visible library blind stamp on title-page and two other leaves, contemporary ruled calf, sometime rebacked and repaired, an old library bookplate on pastedown. An excellent crisp copy with good margins. First edition. Wing Z.22. Sweet & Maxwell I p.354(#49). This was Richard Zouche's last book, a polemical work, published posthumously. (Dr. T. Baldwyn of Doctors' Commons certified in the Preface that he had received the manuscript from Zouche himself to be printed). Coke's attack on the Admiralty jurisdiction is systematically refuted. Zouche argues that the law merchant did not derogate from the common law; admiralty law and common law coexist and litigants may choose their court; the special admiralty procedure, however, makes it more convenient to litigants. Richard Zouche (1590-1661), a distinguished civil lawyer, had practised in admiralty cases for many years, sometime being made commissioner for piracy in London, Hampshire and Dorset. In 1641 he was appointed judge of the high court of admiralty, but, due to his royalist sympathies, was removed during the civil war. On 4 February 1661 he recovered his old position as judge of the court of Admiralty but on 1 March he died in London. In 1691 the jurisdiction and powers vested in the Lord High Admiral of England were transferred to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.

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