Reprint of the first and only English translation of Roccus' treatise on maritime law, which was first published in 1655. This manual is very highly esteemed by commercial lawyers in all countries, for its compressed, methodical, and accurate learning, and is a book of high authority.-- Marvin, Legal Bibliography (1847) 616 Roccus'] works are of more practical use to an English lawyer, than all the other maritime works with one exception]... Lord Mansfield is under no inconsiderable obligation to them. -- Joseph Story, Literature of Maritime Law, in The Miscellaneous Writings of Joseph...