wisbuy laws

A maritime code which, though framed at a town in the now obscure island of Gothland, in the Baltic, was submissively adopted by Europe.

May laws
·add. ·- ·see <<Kulturkampf>>, above. II. May laws ·add. ·- In Russia, severe oppressive laws again...

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blue laws
"Where, and how, the story of the New Haven Blue Laws originated, is a matter of some curiosity. Acc...

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kepler's laws
Three famous laws of nature detected by Kepler early in the seventeenth century: 1. The primary pl...

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rhodian laws
A maritime code, asserted, but without sufficient proof, to be the basis of the Roman sea-laws. The ...

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sea-laws
The codes relating to the sea; as, the laws of Rhodes, Oleron, Wisbuy, &c. ...

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