A Treatise of the Law Relative to Merchant Ships and Seamen: In Five PartsC.C. Little and J. Brown, 1846 - 1004 pages |
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action affreightment aforesaid afterwards agent agreement appear arrival authority barratry Bee's Adm bill of lading bottomry bound Brig British captain cargo certificate of registry charter-party charterer claim collector consignee consignor contract convoy Court of Admiralty covenant crew damage defendant delivered delivery demurrage destination discharge duty East entitled expense foreign freight freighter French Ordinance Hagg held hire hypothecation indorsed John Justice Kent liable lien London Lord Lord Ellenborough Lord Mansfield Lord Stowell Lord Tenterden loss mariners maritime law Mason Mass master merchant navigation officer Oleron owner paid part-owner parties passengers payment person Peters pilot plaintiff port possession proceed received recover registered repairs respect river Thames rule sail salvage Schooner seamen Sect ship or vessel ship-owner ship's shipper statute stipulated Sumner thereof tion Valin voyage wages Ware
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Page 653 - 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 255 - 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 341 - 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 850 - 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 836 - 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 397 - 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 553 - Stein, or his assigns, he or they paying freight for the said goods per agreement, with primage and average accustomed...
Page 310 - 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 240 - States, may exercise in respect to offenders for any crime or offence against the United States, by arresting, imprisoning. or bailing the same...
Page 246 - ... prejudice any owner or part owner of such ship or vessel, or of any goods on board the same, or any person that...