Commentaries on the Laws of England, Book the First

by Sir William Blackstone

[a] Spelm. Cod. apud Wilkins. 305.

[] 26 May, A.D. 1174. 1 Rym. Foed. 36.

[c] Rog. Hoved. in Ric. I.

[d] In like manner Constantine the great, finding that by the imperial law the revenue of wrecks was given to the prince's treasury or fiscus, restrained it by an edict (Cod. 11. 5. 1.) and ordered them to remain to the owners; adding this humane expostulation, "Quod enim jus habet fiscus in aliena calamitate, ut de re tam luctuosa compendium sectetur?"

[e] Bract. l. 3. c. 3.

[f] 3 Edw. I. c. 4.

[g] Flet. 1. c. 44. 2 Inst. 167.

[h] §. 28.

[] 2 Inst. 168.

[k] Plowd. 166.