AN APPENDIX OF ACTS OF PARLIAMENT, FORMS, &c. BY FRANCIS LUDLOW HOLT, OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, ESQ. BARRISTER AT LAW. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: PRINTED FOR JOSEPH BUTTERWORTH AND SON, LAW BOOKSELLERS, 43, FLEET-STREET; AND JOHN COOKE, ORMOND QUAY, DUBLIN. 75 ΤΟ THE RIGHT HON. SIR WILLIAM SCOTT, KNT., Judge of the High Court of Admiralty of England, AND A LORD OF TRADE AND PLANTATIONS, &c. &c. &c. SIR, IN soliciting your protection to a Work on the Shipping and Navigation Laws of Great Britain, I consider myself as applying to one, whose administration of the more important of these laws, in the most critical period of our national existence, has so connected his name with these elements of our safety and greatness, as to have rendered the subject of the present Treatise almost peculiarly his own. It is only a few years since this country concluded a war fertile beyond all others in the variety of its events; and which, whilst it continued, required a system of maritime jurisprudence peculiarly adapted to its new forms. The frequent resort to the Admiralty Court in cases connected with belligerent and 429422 |