A Scottish Letter of Marque from the Thirty Years' War: a legal first for the doctrine of 'Continuous Voyage'

Steve Murdoch

A Scottish Letter of Marque from the Thirty Years' War: a legal first for the doctrine of 'Continuous Voyage'

Steve Murdoch

School of History

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Abstract

This brief article discusses a Letter of Marque which seems to come from the year 1628, but was actually used in evidence for a case in 1667 to condemn a ship on the grounds of carrying contraband to an enemy which actually being seized in ballast. The case represented a legal first.

Original language	English
Specialist publication	Naval Records Society Online Magazine
Publication status	Published - 24 Feb 2019

Keywords

Maritime law
Maritime history
Scottish history
Legal history
Early Modern history

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