The Law of the Whale Hunt: Dispute Resolution, Property Law, by Robert Deal

By Robert Deal

Whale oil lit the towns and greased the machines of the commercial Revolution. In gentle of its significance, festival among whalers used to be excessive. faraway from courts and legislations enforcement, competing crews of yankee whalers now not identified for his or her gentility and armed with harpoons tended to unravel disputes at sea over possession of whales. Left to settle arguments on their lonesome, whalemen created norms and customs to make a decision possession of whales pursued by way of a number of crews. The legislations of the Whale Hunt offers an cutting edge exam of ways estate legislation used to be created within the absence of formal criminal associations regulating the yank whaling within the eighteenth and 19th centuries. utilizing depositions, court docket testimony, logbooks, and different formerly unused basic resources, Robert Deal tells a thrilling tale of yank whalers looking in waters from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific and the ocean of Okhotsk.

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