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"Privateering was legal whereas piracy was illegal. That much everyone knows. But what exactly was privateering? Answering this question turns out to depend not so much on the relationship between privateering and piracy as on the relationship between privateering and other forms of maritime ra...
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Brill/Nijhoff,
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| Publisher Address: | Leiden : |
| Publication Dates: | [2023] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Legal history library ; 62. 1874-1793 Legal history library. Studies in the history of international lawStudies in the history of international law ; 24. |
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| Summary: |
"Privateering was legal whereas piracy was illegal. That much everyone knows. But what exactly was privateering? Answering this question turns out to depend not so much on the relationship between privateering and piracy as on the relationship between privateering and other forms of maritime raiding that had been considered legal long before the word 'privateering', or the practice it denoted, came into existence. This book clarifies all these relationships and explains how privateering emerged as a new legal category in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The subject is approached from a British perspective, in the light of developments elsewhere, including the movement towards a new understanding of the law regulating relations between nations"-- |
| Carrier Form: | x, 416 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [317]-407) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9789004541405 9004541403 |
| Index Number: | KZ6573 |
| CLC: | D956.132 |
| Call Number: | D956.132/F699 |
| Contents: | Seizure of ships and goods at sea at sea before privateering -- From licit plunder towards licensesd privateering -- Privateering in theory and practice avant la lettre. |