Charles Molloy (lawyer)

Charles Molloy (1640–1690) was an Irish lawyer known as a writer on maritime law.

Stuart Handley writing in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography casts doubt on tentative accounts of his early life.

[1] Molloy was the compiler of an extensive treatise on maritime law and commerce, entitled De Jure Maritimo et Navali.

It was successful despite its derivative nature:[2] its content was not much advance on the Consuetudo vel Lex Mercatoria by Gerard Malynes, and the coverage of law concerning bills of exchange was said by a later author[3] to be inferior to the treatise of John Marius.

It was a standard work on the subject, till superseded by the publications of James Alan Park, Samuel Marshall, and Lord Tenterden.