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William Welwod

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Scottish legal scholar

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According to Wikipedia, William Welwod was a Scottish jurist who was the first to formulate the laws of the sea in an insular Germanic language. He was a professor of civil law at the University of St Andrews until 1611, when he resigned his chair and moved to England.

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