Oleron
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
A small island off the coast of France; anciently of commercial importance. Laws of Oleron. The title of a highly valued compilation of maritime laws, promulgated some time during the twelfth century, from Oleron. For a translation, see 1 Pet. Adm. Appx. and for fuller accounts, see 1 Pars. Shipp. ^ Adm. 9; 3 Kent, 12.