V TREATISE

ON

THE L AWS

OF

Commerce and Manufactures,

AND

THE CONTRACTS

RELATING THERETO :

WITH

AN APPENDIX OF TREATIES

AND PRECEDENTS.

BY JOSEPH CHITTY, Esq.
OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, BARRISTER AT LAW.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

ADVERTISEMENT

TO

SECOND VOLUME.

IT was originally intended to publish the Treaties

and Forms applicable to the First and Second
Volumes of this work as Parts of the Fourth Volume,
but it is now considered preferable to print them at
the End of this Volume, which will therefore consist
of the Residue of the Public Regulations affecting
Commerce and Manufactures (as will appear from the
following Table of Contents), with a copious Index,
concluding at page 492 ; and then follow the Treaties
and other Public Forms, with a distinct Index.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

OR

SECOND VOLUME.

CHAP. I.

Of ports, harbours, port duties, &c. 1 to 32. (See Index, tit.
“ Ports.")

Page

Of the ports, havens, harbours, roads, &c. of Great Britain - 2

Definition, nature, and extent of - - - - 2 to 7

Of the establishment of ports, and the king's prerogative in this

respect

- - 7 to 10

Statute law with regard to the establishment of . . 10 to 12

Cinque ports

12

Of the rights of owners incident to ports -

- 14 to 21

Of the rights of the public incident to ..

. 21 to 32

Acts of parliament regulating ports - - - - 26 to 32

CHAP. II.

Of lighthouses, beacons, and seamarks, 33 to 45. (See Index, tit.

66 Lighthouse.")

Definition of, and when erected

Trinity house to erect and maintain lighthouses, &c.

Ships exhibiting lights -

Concise history of Trinity house

- - - 35 to 39

Edystone rock, what ships to pay duties