Charles Molloy (lawyer)
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Charles Molloy (1640 – 1690) was an Irish lawyer known as a writer on
maritime law Admiralty law or maritime law is a body of law that governs nautical issues and private maritime disputes. Admiralty law consists of both domestic law on maritime activities, and private international law governing the relationships between priva ...
.


Life

He was born in
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, the son of John Molloy. Stuart Handley writing in the '' Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' casts doubt on tentative accounts of his early life. He entered
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in 1667, and Gray's Inn in 1669. There is evidence he was
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, and practised as a barrister. He died in Crane Lane Court, Fleet Street, London in 1690.


Works

Molloy was the compiler of an extensive treatise on maritime law and commerce, entitled ''De Jure Maritimo et Navali''. It was successful despite its derivative nature: its content was not much advance on the ''Consuetudo vel Lex Mercatoria'' by
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, and the coverage of law concerning bills of exchange was said by a later author to be inferior to the treatise of John Marius. It was a standard work on the subject, till superseded by the publications of James Alan Park, Samuel Marshall, and
Lord Tenterden Charles Abbott, 1st Baron Tenterden (7 October 1762 – 4 November 1832), was a British barrister and judge who served as Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench between 1818 and 1832. Born in obscure circumstances to a barber and his wife ...
. Its importance was its orientation towards the perspective of merchants. Molloy also published ''Holland's Ingratitude, or a Serious Expostulation with the Dutch'', London, 1666.


See also

* Froinsias Ó Maolmhuaidh (aka Francis Molloy), grammarian


Notes

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External links

* * http://www.libraryireland.com/biography/CharlesMolloy.php {{DEFAULTSORT:Molloy, Charles 1640 births 1690 deaths 17th-century Irish lawyers Lawyers from County Offaly 17th-century Irish writers