"What would this island be without foreign
trade, but a place of confinement to the inhabitants, who (without it) could be
but a kind of hermites, as being separated from the rest of the world; it is
foreign trade that renders us rich, honourable and great, that gives us a name
and esteem in the world” – Charles Molloy, De Jure Maritimo et Navale, 1676
(the epigraph of “Schmitthoff’s Export Trade: The Law And Practice Of
International Trade” by Clive M. Schmitthoff, London, Stevens&Sons, 1990)
