Richard Zouch also Richard Zouche (c. 1590 – March 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