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Richard Zouch also '''Richard Zouche''' (c. 1590March 1 1661 ), English Jurist , was born at Anstey, Wiltshire , and educated at Winchester and afterwards at the University Of Oxford , where he became a fellow of New College in 1609 . He was admitted at Doctor's Commons in January 1618 , and was appointed Regius Professor Of Law at Oxford in 1620 . In 1625 he became principal of St Alban Hall and chancellor of the diocese of Oxford; in 1641 he was made judge of the High Court Of Admiralty . Under the Commonwealth , having submitted to the parliamentary visitors, he retained his university appointments, though not his judgeship; this last he resumed at the Restoration , dying soon afterwards at his apartments in Doctors' Commons , London, on March 1 1661 .


PUBLICATIONS


Legal works

  • Elementa jurisprudentiae ( 1629 )

  • Descriptio juris et judicii feudalis, secundum consuetudines Mediolani et Normanniae, pro introductione ad juris prudentiam Anglicanam ( 1634 )

  • Descriptio juris et judicii temporalis, secundum consuetudines feudales et Normannicas ( 1636 )

  • Descriptio juris et judicii ecclesiastici, secundum canones et consuetudines Anglicanes ( 1636 )

  • Descriptio iuris et iudicii militaris( 1640 )

  • Juris et judicii fecialis sive juris inter gentes . . . explicatio ( 1650 )

  • Solutio quaestionis veteris et novae, sive de legati delinquentis judice competente ( 1657 )


In virtue of the last two he has the distinction of being one of the earliest systematic writers on international law.


Poetry

  • The Dove, or Passages of Cosmography ( 1613 )


From an old 1911 encyclopedia