The second edition, with large additions and improvements, and a new appendix, containing several eminent lawyers opinions in important marine cases; a comparison of the English and French conduct in their sea affairs; an essay concerning the Navy of England, taken from Mr. Pepys', Mr. Burchet's and other authentick memoirs; an abstract of all the Acts of Parliament relating to the marine; particularly, that for establishing Article and orders for regulating and better government of the fleet, &c.
prepared by judges, members of the bar, teachers in law schools, and writers on legal subjects, under the editorial supervision of Eugene Allen Gilmore, assisted by William Charles Wermuth