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RICHARD ZOUCH (c. 159o-1661)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 1045 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RICHARD See also:ZOUCH (c. 159o-1661)  , See also:English jurist, was See also:born at See also:Anstey, See also:Wiltshire, and educated at See also:Winchester and after-wards at See also:Oxford, where he became a See also:fellow of New See also:College in 1609 . He was admitted at See also:Doctor's See also:Commons in See also:January 1615, and was appointed regius See also:professor of See also:law at Oxford in 16so . In 1625 he became See also:principal of St See also:Alban See also:Hall and See also:chancellor of the See also:diocese of Oxford; in 1641 he was made See also:judge of the High See also:Court of See also:Admiralty . Under the See also:Commonwealth, having submitted to the See also: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 Doctor's Commons, See also:London, on the 1st of See also:March 1661 . He published Eler,ienta jurisprudentiae (1629), Descriptio See also:juris et judicii feudalis, secundum consuetudines Mediolani et Normanniae, See also:pro introductione ad jurisprudentiarn Anglicanam (1634), Descriptio juris et judicii temporalis, secundum consuetudines feudales el Normannices (1636), Descriptio juris et judicii ecclesiastici, secundum canones et consuetudines Anglicanas (1636), Descriptiones juris et judicii sacri, . militaris, . . . maritimi (164o), Juris et judicii fecialis sire juris inter genies . explicatio (165o), and Solutio quaestionis de iegati delinquentis judice competence (1657) . In virtue of the last two he has the distinction of being one of the earliest systematic writers on See also:international law . He was also the author of a poem, The See also:Dove, or Passages of Cosmography (1613) .

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