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Charles Sumner: “Throughout the seventeenth century numerous incidents illustrate the pretensions of Great Britain; and so also in the…”

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Throughout the seventeenth century numerous incidents illustrate the pretensions of Great Britain; and so also in the next century. Émérigon, the famous French authority on the Law of Insurance, mentions one which deserves notice.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner notes that numerous incidents throughout the seventeenth century illustrate Britain's pretensions in maritime law.

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