Admiralty Law, Canada; The Rules, 1893, Annotated, with Forms,..

1893. Howell, Alfred, [1836-1911]. Admiralty Law, Canada; The Rules, 1893, Annotated, with Forms, Tables of Fees, and Statutes, and a Treatise on the Matters Subject to the Jurisdiction of Admiralty Courts in Canada. Toronto: Carswell Co., 1893. xxvi, 356 pp. Three-quarter calf over marbled boards with raised bands and gilt black lettering piece to spine. Worn and scuffed with front joint starting at foot of spine. Ex-library with property stamps to front free endpaper, title page and bottom edge of text block. Bookseller's ticket "Carswell Co." to front pastedown. Some pencil underlining with contemporary pen annotation to page 294. $125. * "The coming into force of 'The Admiralty Act, 1891,' (Canada), conferring jurisdiction throughout Canada and its waters, tidal and non-tidal, and of the General Rules for regulating the practice thereunder, published in the Canada Gazette June 10th, 1893, marking a new era in the administration of maritime law and the exercise of Admiralty jurisdiction in the Dominion, suggested the collecting together with those rules, of such statutes, Imperial and Canadian, as are material, and also the leading decisions of the House of Lords, the Privy Council, the High Court of Admiralty, the Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice, England, and of the Supreme and Exchequer Courts of Canada, relating to the jurisdiction and practice in question" (Preface, [v]). (Inventory #: 82367)