| 单词 | rhodian maritime law |
| 释义 | > as lemmasRhodian maritime law b. Rhodian law: a collection of Byzantine laws, probably compiled in the 7th or 8th centuries a.d., regulating life at sea. Also Rhodian sea law, Rhodian maritime law.The laws included regulations for life on board ship, profit-sharing by crew members, and shared liability for the value of goods jettisoned, lost to pirates, or destroyed in shipwrecks. ΘΚΠ society > law > branch of the law > [noun] > maritime law admiralty1419 Rhodian law1613 sea-law1613 admiralty law1676 maritime lawa1682 1613 W. Welwood Abridgem. Sea-lawes Proem 2 The very Emperors of Rome..did referre all seafaring debates & controuersies, to the iudgement of the Rhodian law. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 454 The Rhodian law was the directory of the Romans in maritime affairs. 1866 Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 239/2 Rhodian Law is the earliest system of marine law known to history, said to be compiled by the Rhodians after they had by their commerce and naval victories obtained the sovereignty of the sea, about 900 years before the Christian era. 1909 W. Ashburner Rhodian Sea-law Introd. p. xiii The little treatise on maritime law which is here edited..is oftenést described as the Rhodian Sea-law. 1913 Univ. of Pennsylvania Law Rev. 61 432 There is reason to believe that the Rhodian law was not simply a body of customary law, but that it was reduced to writing. 2009 C. Lin Maritime Transport Services ii. 19 Digest of Justinian recorded the earliest maritime codification by the Romans. It incorporated concepts from Rhodian maritime law from around 800 bc. < as lemmas |
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