rhodian laws

rhodian laws
/rowdiyan loz/ The earliest code or collection of maritime laws. It was formulated by the people of the island of Rhodes, who, by their commercial prosperity and the superiority of their navies, had acquired the sovereignty of the seas. Its date is very uncertain, but is supposed (by Kent and others) to be about 900 B.C. Nothing of it is now extant except the article on jettison, which has been preserved in the Roman collections or Pandects (Dig. 14, 2; 3 Kent, Comm. 232, 233 "Lex Rhodia de Jactu.") The Lex

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