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Page 657 - India warrants, warehouse-keepers' certificates, warrants or orders for the delivery of goods, or any other documents used in the ordinary course of business as proof of the possession or control of goods, or authorizing or purporting to authorize, either by indorsement or by delivery, the possessor of such document to transfer or receive goods thereby represented...
Page 257 - An Act to amend an Act of the Twentieth Year of his Majesty King George the Second, for the Relief and Support of sick, maimed, and disabled Seamen, and the Widows and Children of such as shall be killed, slain, or drowned in the Merchant Service, and for other Purposes.
Page 345 - The distinction is very clear, where mutual covenants go to the whole of the consideration on both sides, they are mutual conditions, the one precedent to the other. But where they go only to a part, where a breach may be paid for in damages, there the defendant has a remedy on his covenant, and shall not plead it as a condition precedent.
Page 854 - In the exercise of this power, congress has passed "an act for enrolling and licensing ships or vessels to be employed in the coasting trade, and fisheries, and for regulating the same.
Page 840 - Vessels built within the United States and belonging wholly to citizens thereof; and vessels which may be captured in war by citizens of the United States and lawfully condemned as prize, or which may be adjudged to be forfeited for a breach of the laws of the United States...
Page 401 - London, (the act of God, the queen's enemies, fire, and all and every other dangers and accidents of the seas, rivers, and navigation, of whatever nature and kind soever, excepted,) unto order or to assigns, he or they paying freight for the said goods at 51.
Page 557 - Stein, or his assigns, he or they paying freight for the said goods per agreement, with primage and average accustomed...
Page 314 - A party is not to cast himself upon an obstruction which has been made by the fault of another, and avail himself of it, if he do not himself use common and ordinary caution to be in the right.
Page 242 - States, may exercise in respect to offenders for any crime or offence against the United States, by arresting, imprisoning. or bailing the same...
Page 248 - ... prejudice any owner or part owner of such ship or vessel, or of any goods on board the same, or any person that...
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| Title | A Treatise of the Law Relative to Merchant Ships and Seamen: In Five Parts |
| Author | Charles Abbott (Baron Tenterden) |
| Editors | William Shee, Joseph Story, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins |
| Edition | 7 |
| Publisher | C.C. Little and J. Brown, 1846 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 4 dets. 2007 |
| Length | 1004 pages |
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