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Amalphitan Table

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

A code of sea laws compiled for the free and trading republic of Amalphi toward the end of the eleventh century.

3 Kent, Comm. 9.

It consists of the laws on maritime subjects on account of its being collected into one regular system, it was for a long time received as authority in those countries.

1 Azuni, Mar. Law, 376.

AMBACTUS (Lat, ambire, to go about). A servant sent about; one whose services his master hired out.

Spelman.