Wisbuy

Laws of. A code of maritime laws, compiled at Wisbuy, the ancient capital of Gothland in Sweden, towards the close of the thirteenth century, and which, soon after their promulgation, were adopted as laws of the sea by all the nations of modern Europe. Even in the time of Cleirac (who published them, with a commentary, in his work entitled Les Us et Coutumes de la Mer), they were still observed in Sweden, Denmark, Flanders, and in the north of Germany. These laws resemble in many respects the laws of Oleron, to which, indeed, according to Cleirac, they were but a supplement, and they were adopted as the basis of the later collection known as the "Laws of the Hanseatic League." 3 Kent, Comm. 13, and note; 1 Duer, Ins. 40, 41; Introd. Disc. Lect. ii. They have been published in the United States, in the appendix to the first volume of Peters' Admiralty Decisions.

laws of. A code of maritime teenth century at Wisbuy in Gothland,

An ancient city in Sweden. Brown (Am. ed.) gives the name Wishuy. Laws of Wisbuy. A compilation of maritime laws framed at Wisbuy towards the close of the thirteenth centmy. A translation may be found in 1 Pet. Adm. Dec. appx.