Amalphitan Table
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
A code of sea laws compiled for the free and trading republic of Amalphi toward the end of the eleventh century.
3 Keut 9.
It consists of the laws on maritime subjects which were or had been in force in countries bordering on the Mediterranean; and, on account of its collecting them into one regular system, it was for a long time received as authority in those countries.
1 Azuni, Mar. Law 376.
It became a part of the law of the sea; The Scotia, 14 Wall. (U. S.) 170, 20 L. Ed. 822. See Code. AMBACTUS (Lat. am Ure, to go about). A servant sent about; one whose services his master hired out Spelman, Gloss. AMBASSADOR IN INTERNATIONAL