admiralty law

-- so called either from the color of the binding, or from the character of the contents. A book compiled in the twelfth century, containing a description of the court of exchequer of England, an official statement of the revenues of the crown, etc. A book containing details of the enormities practiced in the English monasteries and religious houses, compiled by order of their visitors under Henry VIII., to hasten their dissolution. A book of admiralty law, of the highest authority, compiled in the reign of Edw