# The freedom of the seas

Author: Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645; Scott, James Brown, 1866-1943 [Editor]; Magoffin, Ralph Van Deman, 1874-1942 [Translator]

Genre: Category: History - Early Modern (c. 1450-1750)

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75962

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+freedom+of+the+seas+Grotius&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

In the leading case of The Louis (2 Dodson 210), decided in 1817, some two hundred years after Selden’s book was written, Sir William Scott, later Lord Stowell and one of Selden’s most distinguished countrymen, said, in rejecting the claim of his country to the exercise of jurisdiction beyond a marine league from the British shore:

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-freedom-of-the-seas-75962/chapters/6/index.md)
- [LETTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-freedom-of-the-seas-75962/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-freedom-of-the-seas-75962/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter XII of the Law of Prize rides the waves, whereas its rival,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-freedom-of-the-seas-75962/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-freedom-of-the-seas-75962/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-freedom-of-the-seas-75962/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-freedom-of-the-seas-75962/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-freedom-of-the-seas-75962/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-freedom-of-the-seas-75962/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-freedom-of-the-seas-75962/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-freedom-of-the-seas-75962/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-freedom-of-the-seas-75962/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-freedom-of-the-seas-75962/chapters/7/index.md)
- [LETTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-freedom-of-the-seas-75962/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-freedom-of-the-seas-75962/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-freedom-of-the-seas-75962/chapters/10/index.md)