Manual of International Law: For the Use of Navies, Colonies and ConsulatesW.B. Whittingham, 1884 |
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acts affreightment ARNOULD authority average bankruptcy belong bill of lading bills of exchange bottomry bound British called caused Chapt charges charter-party civilized claim collision commercial Conflict of Laws conformity Conscience consignee constitute Consul contract Court creditors crew curators or assignees damage declaration discharge domicile Droit Intern Edit existing foreign freight freighter Government HALLECK Huascar human mind individual insolvent intercourse interest jurisdiction Justice Law of Nations Law of Nature legislation LEONE LEVI lex domicilii lex fori lex loci contractus lex mercatoria liable loss Maritime Law master ment Moral Law navigation obligations officers owner parties payment person PHILLIMORE Political Nationality port principle Private International Law private vessels public vessels reason regard regulations respective Robert Phillimore rules salvage ship and cargo ship's shipper stipulated sub-section term territorial waters thereof tion trade treaty underwriter usages voyage WHEATON
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Page 314 - 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 444 - ... danger to his own vessel, crew, and passengers (if any), to stay by the other vessel until he has ascertained that she has no need of further assistance, and to render to the other vessel, her master, crew, and passengers (if any...
Page 457 - Act provides that no owner or master of any ship shall be answerable to any person whatever for any loss or damage occasioned by the fault or incapacity of any qualified pilot acting in charge of such ship within any district where the employment of a pilot is compulsory by law.
Page 316 - ... shall have transferred to and vested in him all rights of suit, and be subject to the same liabilities in respect of such goods as if the contract contained in the bill of lading had been made with himself.
Page 317 - Every bill of lading in the hands of a consignee or endorsee for valuable consideration, representing goods to have been shipped on board a vessel, shall be conclusive evidence of such shipment as against the master or other person signing the same, notwithstanding that such goods or some part thereof may not have been so shipped...
Page 433 - It would be obviously inconvenient and dangerous to society, and would subject the laws to continual infraction, and the government to degradation, If such individuals or merchants did not owe temporary and local allegiance, and were not amenable to the jurisdiction of the country.
Page 317 - ... notwithstanding that such goods or some part thereof may not have been so shipped, unless such holder of the bill of lading shall have had actual notice at the time of receiving the same that the goods had not been in fact laden on board: Provided, that the master or other person so signing may exonerate himself in respect of such misrepresentation by showing that it was caused without any default on his part, and wholly by the fraud of the shipper or of the holder, or some person under whom...
Page 12 - Ultimate Scientific Ideas, then, are all representative of realities that cannot be comprehended. After no matter how great a progress in the colligation of facts and the establishment of generalizations ever wider and wider — after the merging of limited and derivative truths in truths that are larger and deeper has been carried no matter how far ; the fundamental truth remains as much beyond reach as ever.
Page 451 - But when, as in this case, a ship at the time of a collision is in actual violation of a statutory rule intended to prevent collisions, it is no more than a reasonable presumption that the fault, if not the sole cause, was at least a contributory cause of the disaster. In such a case the burden rests upon the ship of showing not merely that her fault might not have been one of the causes, or that it probably was not, but that it could not have been.
Page 262 - All loss which arises in consequence of extraordinary sacrifices made or expenses incurred for the preservation of the ship and cargo come within general average, and must be borne proportionably by all who are interested.