A Treatise on Maritime Law: Including the Law of Shipping; the Law of Marine Insurance; and the Law and Practice of Admiralty, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1859 - Admiralty |
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... principles and enforced by the processes of Admiralty courts . But without attempting to illustrate , by further details , my reasons for believing that these topics are interde- pendent branches from one great stem - the science of ...
... principles and enforced by the processes of Admiralty courts . But without attempting to illustrate , by further details , my reasons for believing that these topics are interde- pendent branches from one great stem - the science of ...
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... principles and rules of the law , and placing in the notes the au- thorities on which they rest with such citations as seem to afford needed illustration , or due qualification , I have suc- ceeded in compressing my work within these ...
... principles and rules of the law , and placing in the notes the au- thorities on which they rest with such citations as seem to afford needed illustration , or due qualification , I have suc- ceeded in compressing my work within these ...
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... principles of the common law are not ade- quate nor always applicable to the present exigencies of com- merce . There are occasional intimations , in even the oldest books of the law , that England had then shipping and merchants , and ...
... principles of the common law are not ade- quate nor always applicable to the present exigencies of com- merce . There are occasional intimations , in even the oldest books of the law , that England had then shipping and merchants , and ...
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... principles , some even of those which might seem to be most peculiar , ascend to a higher antiquity than any thing in the common law , or in any other existing sys- tem of law . Even the Roman civil law , in the rubric de lege Rhodia de ...
... principles , some even of those which might seem to be most peculiar , ascend to a higher antiquity than any thing in the common law , or in any other existing sys- tem of law . Even the Roman civil law , in the rubric de lege Rhodia de ...
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... principles drawn from the Roman civil law . Students are often deterred from any examination of the civil law , by a belief that useful knowledge of it cannot be acquired , without the expenditure of a vast amount of time and labor ...
... principles drawn from the Roman civil law . Students are often deterred from any examination of the civil law , by a belief that useful knowledge of it cannot be acquired , without the expenditure of a vast amount of time and labor ...
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Page 589 - When committed upon the high seas, or on any other waters within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States and out of the jurisdiction of any particular State...
Page 505 - That all pilots in the bays, inlets, rivers, harbors, and ports of the United States shall continue to be regulated in conformity with the existing laws of the States, respectively, wherein such pilots may be, or with such laws as the States may respectively hereafter enact for the purpose, until further legislative provision shall be made by Congress.
Page 572 - That no person who shall arrive in the United States, from and after the time when this act shall take effect, shall be admitted to become a citizen of the United States, who shall not for the continued term of five years next preceding his admission as aforesaid have resided within the United States [without being at any time during the said five years, out of the territory of the United States].
Page 659 - ... as if one had been employed, and such pilotage shall be paid to the pilot first speaking or offering his services as pilot to such vessel.
Page 615 - ... shall lade the same as freight or baggage on any vessel, without, at the time of such lading giving to the master, clerk, agent, or owner of such vessel receiving the same, a written notice of the true character and value thereof, and having the same entered on the bill of lading therefor, the master and owner of such vessel shall not be liable as carriers thereof...
Page 506 - I have just referred, declares, that if any person or persons shall commit, upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular State, murder or robbery, or any other offence which, if committed within the body of a county, would, by the laws of the United States, be punishable with death...
Page 611 - ... in the United States, with certified manifests, setting forth the particulars of the cargoes, the marks, number of packages, by whom shipped, to whom consigned, at what port to be delivered; designating such merchandise as is entitled to drawback, or to the privilege of being placed in warehouse: and the masters of all such vessels shall, on their arrival at any port of the United States from any foreign port at which such vessel may have touched, as herein provided, conform to the laws providing...
Page 603 - SEC. 4600. It shall be the duty of all consular officers to discountenance insubordination by every means in their power and, where the local authorities can be usefully employed for that purpose, to lend their aid and use their exertions to that end in the most effectual manner.
Page 153 - A ship trading from one port to another has not the means of carrying the goods on land ; and, according to the established course of trade, a delivery on the usual wharf is such a delivery as will discharge the carrier.
Page 615 - No owner of any vessel shall be liable to answer for or make good to any person any loss or damage which may happen to any merchandise whatsoever, which shall be shipped, taken in, or put on board any such vessel, by reason or by means of any fire happening to or on board the vessel, unless such fire is caused by the design or neglect of such owner.