History of the Foreshore and the Law Relating Thereto: With a Hitherto Unpublished Treatise by Lord Hale Lord Hale''s De Jure Maris and Hall''s Essay on the Rights of the Crown in the Sea-Shore (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A History of the Foreshore and the Law Relating Thereto: With a Hitherto Unpublished Treatise by Lord Hale Lord Hale''s De Jure Maris and Hall''s Essay on the Rights of the Crown in the Sea-Shore<br><br>The sole purpose of the present treatise is to throw light upon the di?icult questions which so often arise between the Crown and the subject with regard to the title to the foreshores of this kingdom. I was requested by the pub Iishers to prepare a new edition of Mr. Hall''s treatise upon the Sea-shore which was first published in 1 830 and most ably te-edited by Mr. Loveland in 1875. In pre paring the work however I was so much surprised at the unfairness of the arguments put forth by Mr. Hall arising without doubt from an imperfect knowledge of the true facts relating to the subject (which it is but just to say were not accessible at that time) and at the unquestioned bias in favour of the Crown which is apparent throughout his work that I induced the publishers to allow me to preface the edition with a brief treatise in which I proposed to controvert some of Mr. Hall''s arguments. To do this I had recourse to a large quantity of material relating to foreshores fisheries and other manorial rights collected by me during many years from the Public Records and from reported cases. I speedily however found that instead of writing a brief treatise it would be necessary to set forth these records and cases chronologically in order that the reader might be fully possessed of the material upon which I have based my arguments. Thus I have been led into writing this History of the Foreshore rather than a brief argumentative treatise. This has been done I hope in an impartial spirit with a view of setting forth the true history of the commencement and growth of the theory of the prz''md faa''e title of the Crownxxviii introduction.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.