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SEL SELDEN, J. Mare Clausum. The Dominion or Ownership of the Sea. Translated into English, and set forth with some addi- tional Evidences and Discourses, by M. Nedham. fol. Lon- don. 1652. "The scurrilous newsmonger, Nedham, suppressed the Epistle dedi- catory, interlarded it with several treasonable comments and false glosses of his own, and added a few old evidences, which were supposed to be communicated to him by Bradshaw of infamous memory." The second edition was revised and corrected by J. H., 1662. The Mare Clausum is a full exposition of the claims of England to the sovereignty of the Seas, and was written in answer to the Mare Liberum of Grotius. Soon after Selden's Treatise appeared, it was violently attacked by Burgus, who asserted that Selden wrote it to obtain favor with the ruling powers and his liberation from prison. Selden replied, stating that though the work was published in the reign of Charles I., it was composed in the reign of James I., " and he abused Burgus," says Mr. Manning, " in more hard words than I was before aware existed in the Latin language, all wound up to the superlative degree." Man. L. of N. 26 ; Nic. Hist. Lib. 124; 8 L. O. 434. SELECT CASES in Chancery. See Chancery. in New York. See Yates. . A Select Collection of Cases, with the Opinions of the Principal Counsel of the two last Reigns, and a few of earlier date. Also Reports of some Decisions in the House of Lords, not before published. By a Solicitor. 8vo. London. 1825. relating to Evidence, by a late Barrister at Law. Svo. London. 1754. There was a stop put to the sale of this book on its publication, be- cause of its supposed interference with the sale of Strange's Reports, from whence many of the Cases were abstracted. from the Records of the Supreme Court of New- foundland ; with a Table of the Names of Cases, and an Appen- dix. By R. A. Tucker. Svo. St. Johns. 1829. The period embraced by the Cases reported in this volume, commences July 1817, and terminates June 1828. " The practicing lawyer out of Newfoundland will find very little in this volume, to reward him for the trouble of a perusal ; but the student of general jurisprudence, who de- sires to acquaint himself with the various legal systems, which are in actual operation, in different countries, will find it full of curious and interesting matter." 20 A. J. 210. 636