when valid, i. 475

leenshire, its products, &c. ii. 15.

inia's trade and products, ii. 184

lco, its trade, ii. 263

tance of inland bills, how made, i. 565, 566
Of foreign, ditto, ditto

Under protest, its obligation, i. 568

How must be made, i. 569, 570

Of a third person, frees the drawer, i. 568
After a bill is due, is binding, i. 595

tors of an indorsed and protested bill, cannot be
arrested though any indorser refuses satis-
faction, i. 571, 772

With the drawer's obligation, how must act
at the day of payment, i. 578

Of a bill, on commission, drawn at time,
and afterwards called in, must demand it
of the drawer, i. 579
When may pay
his failing, 1.581
What declaration must make, on the posses-
sor of a bill becoming bankrupt, i. 582
How may compel the possessor of a con-
ditional bill to fulfil the agreement, i. 584
Alteration of the date, Appendix No. II.
Vol. ii.

the bill to the possessor after

Not freed by a protest, i. 564

Obliged, though acceptance was procured

after the drawer's insolvency, i. 566, 567
Denying payment, on the drawer's failing,
what must be done, i. 566

Of a bill made payable to himself, where the
loss falls in case of his failure, i. 567
For a third person, who fails, not recover-
able to the drawer, i. 567, 568
Supra protest has redress against the drawer,
though made without his knowledge, i. 568
For the drawer has no redress against an in-
dorser, i. 567

saries to piracy, who they are, i. 359

Made principals, i. 359, 360

int of the famous silk engine at Derby, ii. 7, 8.
r encouragement of seamen in his Majesty's ser-
ce, i. 411 to 415

rals may arrest ships for the King's service, i. 401
ralty, definition of, and jurisdiction, 400 to 415

1. II.

rivers, but not in arms of the sea, i. 401
No court of record, ditto

May determine, when the common law can-
not, ditto

May try, in matters of freight, seamen's
wages, &c. ditto

May try cases of contracts, &c. for making
ships, and sea damages, ditto

What other contracts it may decide, i. 402
May judge of goods spoiled on ship-board,
ditto

May cause a bond to be made, ditto

When to award execution, ditto

Adriatic Sea, the first settlement of the Venetians there,
i. 9.

Africa's trade with Great Britain, ii. 62
Its general trade, ii. 171

African Isles, their trade, ii. 174 to 185

Company, its original, progress, and decrease,
ii. 62.

New company's laws, &c. i. 62 to 74

Agents, their employ, i. 51, 52

Difference of commercial, ditto
Army, ditto
Navy, ditto
Law, ditto

For proprietors of Money in the Bank of Am-
sterdam, how must be appointed, i. 519
Agio, in the Bank of Amsterdam, how varies, i. 521
How is occasioned, ditto

In the Bank of Rotterdam, how regulated, ditto
Agos, at Venice, how calculated, ii. 148
Airshire, its products, ii. 15
Aleppo, and Alexandretta, their trade, ii. 158
Alexandria, of Egypt, a place of great trade, i. 6

Inferior only to Rome in grandeur, and
number of inhabitants, ditto

Its great revenue to Rome, ditto

Its desay, after being conquered by the
Saracens, ditto

Its

present trade, ii. 165

Algiers, Tripoli, and Tunis, established by pirates, their
trade and products, ii. 169

Alien, its definition, i. 506

i. 507

What may obtain by trade, ditto
What actions he may bring, ditto

May not be on a jury, &c. ditto

May not be a member of Parliament, nor vote
for one, ditto

How to be deprived of unlawful purchases, ditto
At what age may trade here, i. 508
Enemy, cannot maintain debt here, ditto
Descent, when may, and may not inherit, ditto
Allowances for draft of goods, paying customs, ii. 420
Of duty for salt lost, i. 121

Alsace, its trade and products, ii. 133
Amboyna, its trade and products, ii. 251
America, by whom, and when discovered, ii. 257,258
Its trade and products, 257 to 270
Its trade with Great Britain, ii. 85
Amsterdam, supposed to make more insurances than
any other place, i. 480

Its ordinances about insurances, &c. 480
to 496

Anglesey, its poducts, . 13
Angola, its commerce, ii. 179
Appeals about prizes, to whom must be made, i. 403
To whom, from a sentence of the Admiralty,
ditto

Apprentices to masters of ships, regulations concerning
them, i. 167

Arabia, its trade and products, ii. 191

Arbitrations, an act for establishing them, i. 500
Arbitration bond, its form, i. 501

In exchanges, its definition, i. 630
Simple, how wrought, i. 631

Compound ditto, with tables, i. 637 to 654
Arbitrators, their definition and derivation, i. 498
Their award decisive, i. 499

What reciprocalities they may appoint, i.

Its riches, i. 516 to 521

Its regulations, ditto

Of Rotterdam, when established, i. 521
Of Hamburgh, its sureties, ditto

Only citizens to have an account in it, i. 521, 522
Of England, its institution, i, 522

Its charters and special privileges, i. 522 to 536
The forging or erasing its common seal, bills,
notes, &c. made felony, i. 534

Its servants embezzling any note, &c. shall
suffer death, ditto

The method of opening an account with it, i.
538

Of paying in, or drawing money on it, with
the form of a draught, i. 538.
The form of a write-off, ditto

It recovers bills for those who keep cash with
it, i. 538, 539

It discounts bills, i. 539

It will admit of deposits from its customers,
ditto

No personal attendance required for any trans-
action with it, ditto

Will advance money on government securities,
&c. ditto

Its management, and the salaries of the go-

vernor, &c. with their qualifications, i. 540
Superiority, compared with foreign banks, ditto
At Amsterdam, for loans on goods, its insti-
tution, i. 516

Its regulations, and what sums it will advance,
i. 517

In what other parts, such banks are established,

Bankers, great increase of them, and cautions respect-
ing them, i. 542, 543

Draughts on them, or their notes not to be
accounted cash till received, i. 595, 596
New cases on them, i. 596

Bankrupts, advice to guard against becoming one, i.
654, 655

What persons may, or may not, be bank-
rupts, i. 657

What makes a man so, i. 658

Of the commission and commissioners, &c.
i. 663

The oath the commissioners take, i. 664
His surrender, examination, discovery, al-
lowance, and certificate; and of entering
the proceedings, &c. of record, i. 667 to
684
Of the assignment and bargain and sale of
his estate. Of the inrolment, and what
shall pass thereby, or be such an interest
as the commissioners may assign, i. 685
Becoming felo de se, or outlawed, how his
goods are disposed of, ditto

Of uncertain and contingent estates, and
which do, or do not, center in the bank-
rupt, ditto

His wife's title to her free bench, i. 695
Separate settlements, i. 696

Wills in favour of his wife, &c. i. 697

Of marriage bonds, and articles before mar-
riage, i. 700

Debts due to, and from, the wife when
single, i. 704

Of the rights which are invested in his chil-
dren, by virtue of marriage settlements,
and trustees for supporting contingent
remainders, i. 709

Of possibilities, i. 711

Of interests which have been determined not
to centre in him, i. 712

Of the creditors who are such, and therein
of proving their debts, and how notice of
their meeting is to be given, ditto
Special cases of debts that may be proved
i. 713

Of debts that cannot be proved, i. 718
An oath of a creditor for proving his debts,
&c. i. 719

Where copartners are bankrupts, having
joint and separate estates and creditors,
ditto

How far the commissioners shall over-reach
the acts of a bankrupt, from the time of
the acts of bankruptcy committed, i. 725
A remarkable case tried under a second com-
mission of bankruptcy, i. 726

Of factors and executors becoming bank-
rupts; having effects of other persons in
their hands, i. 728

Recent Statutes relative to bankrupts, i. 672
In Holland how treated, i. 742

Bantam, its trade, ii. 242

Barbadoes, its trade, ii. 104

Barbary's trade with Great Britain, ii. 57

Barbary, general trade of, ii. 169

Barretry of mariners, to be answered for by the master,
i. 185

Basil, its trade, ii. 309

Bassora, or Balsora, its trade, ii. 195
Batavia, its trade, ii. 242

Beacons and lighthouses, not to be built without war-
rant, i. 311

Bedfordshire, its products, ii. 5, 6

Beggars, rogues and vagabonds, penalty on bringing
them into Great Britain from foreign counties, i. 123
Bell metal, &c. not to be exported, i. 111
Benares, or Banarous, its trade, ii. 222
Benefit of clergy, not to be allowed to actors of trea-
son, robbery, &c. on the sea, i. 361, 362
Bengal, its trade, ii. 220
Benin's coast, its trade, ii. 177
Bergen, its trade, ii. 289
Berkshire, its products, ii. 6
Bermudas, trade of, ii. 108
Berne, its products and trade, ii. 306
Berry, its trade and products, ii. 125
Beverley Beck, and Hull river, the act about them,
i. 290

Berwickshire, its products, ii. 16

Bills of entry, inwards, their form, how procured at
the Custom-house, ii. 416
Outwards, their form, ii. 425

Bills of exchange, their nature and distinctions, i. 559
The difference between the real and imaginary
specie of any country, i. 560

Bills,

The number of persons making an exchange,
and how distinguished, ditto

The different obligations of drawers, endorsers,
acceptors, or holders of them, under all cir-
cumstances, and whether by commission, or
for their own accounts, i. 562 to 585
of conditional ones, i. 585

Pro forma ones, i. 586

When lost, or mislaid, what must be done, i.
588 to 590

When without date, or in some parts not legible,
i. 590

When the words and figures differ, ditto

When the name of the person to whom payable
is altered, &c. i. 590, 591

When the direction is forgot, i. 591
Their nature payable at fairs, ditto
Various and new cases tried on inland ones,
i. 593, 594

Forgery of them made felony, i. 597
Fictitious payee and indorsers, of the last cases
tried before Lord Chancellor Thurlow, Lord
Loughborough; and by appeal in the House
of Lords, i. 597 to 606

Bills some trials which decided this particular in Por-
tugal, i. 610

Their payment disputed at Leghorn in silver,
ditto

Their various forms in different languages, 611
to 613

Bills of health, their nature and form, i. 369 to 392
Bills of lading, their form, i. 196

Bills of sight at the Custom-house, what they are,
ii. 419.

Black Sea, its trade, ii. 162

Bonds, their definition, i. 551

How are to be made, ditto

Their condition must be to do a thing lawful,
i. 552

Made by infants, how voidable, ditto

By a feme covert, may plead her coverture, ditto
Dependent on some other deed, is void, if the
deed becomes so, ditto

To indemnify any one from a legal prosecution
is void, ditto

Given to a sheriff, as a reward, void, ditto
Their conditions must be possible, ditto
Not limiting time of payment, the money be-
comes due presently, ditto

Not mentioning a place for performance of con-
dition, obliges the obligor to seek the obligee;
if in England, to tender the money, i. 553
For payment of money, may be performed by
giving any other thing in satisfaction, ditto
The acceptance of a new, will not discharge the
old one, as a bond cannot be given in satisfac-
tion for another, &c. ditto

Of 20 years standing, &c. shall be deemed paid,
ditto

Made payable at several days, cannot be sued
till all the days are past, ditto

Where several are bound, they may be sued se-
parately or together, &c. ditto
Given by a drunken man held binding, i. 554;
but see 3 Campb. 33, contra

Do not bind an heir, except expressly named,
&c. ditto

To save harmless, how the defendant must
plead, ditto

Without a date, or with a false one, are good,
if sealed and delivered, though if it is not deli-
vered, it is not good, though signed and sealed,
ditto

Though contain false Latin, or false English,
may be good, &c. ditto
Their form, i. 555

Borneo, its trade and products, ii. 246
Bottomry, its definition, i. 197

Is sometimes on the ship, and sometimes on the
borrower, ditto

May not be engaged in, by a master of a ship, at
the place of his owner's residence, i. 197, 198
Made on ships by their masters, and afterwards
destroyed, is felony, i. 198

To the East Indies, to be on the ship, or goods
only, &c. ditto

On a fictitious supposition, ditto
The form of a bill, ditto

Boundaries of the United States of America, ii. 101

Bounty on exports and imports; the commodities, and
their respective premiums, ii. 414
Bourdeaux, its ancient trade, i. 7
Brecknockshire, its products, ii. 14
Bremen, its trade, ii. 274

Bretagne, its trade and products, ii. 127
British governors, consuls, and merchants abroad to
provide for sailors in distress, i. 184 to 187
The acts for their relief in Portugal, at Cadiz,
Port St. Mary's and Leghorn, i. 184, 185
Brokers, their duty and appellation, i. 616

The number at Amsterdam, i. 618, 619
Their functions, i. 616, 617

Their dues in London, Amsterdam, and several
other places, i. 618, 619

Of insurance and ship brokers, i. 619
New account of stock brokers, i. 619, 620
Buckinghamshire, its products, ii. 6.
Buenos Ayres, its trade, ii. 262
Burgundy, its trade and products, ii. 128
Bursa, its trade and products, ii. 191
Buteshire, its products, ii. 16

C.

CABINDO, its trade, ii. 179
Cabul, or Caboul, its trade, ii. 201
Cachemire, its trade and products, ii. 202
Cadiz, duties on British merchandise there, ii. 50
Caermarthenshire, its products, ii. 14
Caernarvonshire, ditto, ditto
Cafraria, its commerce, ii. 172
Cairo, its trade, ii. 164
Caithness, its products, ii. 16
Calao, its trade, ii. 265

Destroyed, ii. 266
Calbaria, its trade, ii. 173
Calicut, its trade, ii. 215

Calmoucks, their trade, ii. 205
Camboya, its trade and products, ii. 230
Cambridgeshire, its products, ii. 5
Campechy, its trade, ii. 262
Canada, its trade, ii 103

Conquered by the English, ditto
Canary Islands, their commerce, &c. ii. 188
Candia, its trade, ii. 168

Candles or fire, not permitted in Yarmouth harbour, i.255
Canton, its foreign trade, ii. 229
Cape Breton, its trade, ii. 103

Cape de Verd Isles, their trade and products, i. 186
Capha, or Caffa, its trade, ii. 162
Caracca coast, its trade, ii. 262
Cardiganshire, its products, ii. 14
Caribbee Islands, their trade, ii. 105

Carolina, its trade with Great Britain, &c. ii. 94
Carthage, a colony from Tyre, i. 4
Carthaginians, their great trade and improvement of
navigation, i. 4, 5

Carthagena, its trade and products, ii. 260
Caschgar, or Little Boucharie, its products, ii. 200
Caspian Sea, description of, ii. 204
Cassen, its trade, ii. 193

Cattle, sheep, swine, &c. prohibited importation to
England, i. 111

Catwater Harbour, regulations of, i. 252

Cayenne, its trade, ii. 269-
Cazembazar, its produce and trade, ii. 221
Celebes, its trade and products, ii. 248
Ceram, its trade and products, ii. 249
Certificates for entries inwards, ii. 418

For foreign goods exported, ii. 419
For the price of corn exported, ii. 429
Ceylon, its trade and products, ii. 239
Champaigne, its products, ii. 121
Chaoul, or Chaul, its products and trade, ii. 211
Charassm, its products, ii. 202

Charity for seamen, and their widows, disabled, &c. in
the merchants' service, the act, i. 176
Charterparty, its derivation and nature, i. 187

Different cases about them, i. 187, 188
Its usual form, i. 193, 194

Ditto, whereby part of the ship's
owners freight their shares, i. 194
When made void, i. 196

Cheshire, its products, ii. 6

Children of British ambassadors and consuls born abroad
not aliens, i. 506

China, its products and commerce, ii. 227
Chorasan, its products and trade, ii. 203
Christiana, its products, ii. 289
Christiansand, ditto

Christiansund, ditto

Clackmananshire, its products, ii. 16

Coasts of Africa, from Cape Verd to Cape Sierra Le-
ona, their trade, ii. 172

Of Spanish America in the North and South
Seas, their trade, ii. 260, 262

Of Coromandel, their trade, ii. 217
Of Pescherie, their trade, ii. 216
Of India, their trade, ii. 205

Of Africa, from the Cape of Good Hope to the
entrance of the Red Sea, their trade, ii. 179
Cochin, its trade, ii. 216

Cochineal, by whom and with what ships may be im-
ported, i. 111.

Cochin-China, its trade and products, ii. 230
Cockets received on the payment of customs, ii. 425

Their indorsement before given to the searcher,
ii. 426

Commerce of the Russians, i. 13

Of the house of Medicis, i. 16
Of the French, original, i. 18
Of the English, i. 22

Of the Spaniards, i. 24-

Of the Arabians, by Dr. Garcin, i. 25
What it includes, ii. 1, 2

Not unworthy the attention of the most il-
lustrious persons, ditto

Its state under the Asiatic, Grecian, and
Roman monarchies, ditto

Carried on by the Pisans, Genoese, and Ve--
netians, H. 2

By the Portuguese, ditto

By the English, French, Danes, and Ham-
burghers, ditto

By all the nations of Europe to America,
ditto

Its division, ditto

The genius of the English adapted to

it, ii. 2, 3

How it went on augmenting in England,
under different reigns, ii. 3

Commissioners for trying pirates in America, i. 361, 362
Of appeals about prizes, who they
are, i. 366

Comparison of some coin, i. 627

between fine gold and silver, i. 628
Concealing bankrupts effects, the penalties, i. 738
Condemnations of ships, i. 366
Congo, its trade, ii. 178
Constantinople, its trade, ii. 160

Consuls, their office, definition of, i. 415

How appointed, their commissions, i. 416, 417
The duty of a British consul, and all regula-
tions concerning him amply explained, i. 420
to 424.

Contract, its derivation, i. 550

Contracts, not voided by mistakes in drawing the
writings, ditto

Their difference in a day's being limited for
payment and not, ditto

Must be certain, perfect and complete, ditto
Conditional, ditto

For goods may be made by word of mouth as
well as writing, i. 551

Not to be performed in a year, must be in
writing, ditto

Contribution, in marine cases, its signification, i. 241.
Synonimous to average, ditto.
Convoys, their duty, i. 364

Copartners bankrupts,, cases therein, ii. 719,
Corea, its trade and products, ii. 237.
Cork, its trade, ii. 21

Corn, all the subsisting laws and regulations respecting
the importation and exportation, i. 151 to 155
See other acts, Appendix, ii. 437.

Cornwall, its trade, ii. 6

Corporate company for relief of seamen, &c. wounded
and killed in the merchants service, i.. 176,
& seq,

Corsicans, their history and trade, ii. 150
Cosapues, its trade, ii. 204

Cosmo de Medicis, his noble origin, i. 16
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