Le Guidon De La Mer

Thetitile of a French work on marine insurance, by an unknown author, dating back, probably, to the sixteenth century, and said to have been prepared for the merchants of Rouen. It is noteworthy az being the earliest treatise on that subject now extant. Le ley de Dieu et ley de terre sont tout un; et l’un et Vautre preferre ot favour le common et publique bien del terre. The law of God and the law of the land areall one; and both preserve and favor the common and public good of the land. Keilw. 191. he ley est le plus haut enheritance que le roy ad, car per le ley il mesme et touts ses sujets sont rules; et, si le ley ne fuit, nul roy ne nul enheritance serra, 1J. H.6, 63. The law is the highest. inheritance that the king possesses, for by the law both he and all his subjects are ruled; and, if there were no law, there would be neither king nor inheritance.