Report ... upon the proposals of the Board of trade with reference to merchant shipping law and proposed new wartime courts |
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18TH DECEMBER assessors Association Bill of Lading Board of Trade business of shipowners carriage carrier Chamberlain collision and stranding common law contract of shipment crew deduction effect employer evil complained exempting fair value fault his liability fishing boats foundered and missing greater number gross indemnity Indian and Colonial injury John Burns latent defects legislation limit of liability Liverpool Steamship Owners lives lost lives were lost lose his ship magistrates MARITIME COURTS master means to insure Memorandum issued Mercantile Marine MERCHANT SHIPPING LAW missing iron vessels negligence number of lives partial loss passengers personally in fault present profit proportion of 20 PROPOSED NEW MARITIME prudent shipowner question of seaworthiness reasonable means recommended REFERENCE TO MERCHANT regard roadworthy sailing craft sailing ships ship and freight ship to sea Shippers single ship Companies special contract steamers tonnage limit tons total loss total number Underwriter unreasonable unsea unseaworthiness valued policies voyage commences
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Page 16 - Ship not answerable for losses through explosions, Bursting of Boilers, Breakage of Shafts, or any latent defect in the Machinery or Hull, not resulting from want of due diligence by the Owners of the Ship, or any of them or by the Ship's Husband or Manager.
Page 14 - ... to sea, shall use all reasonable means to insure the seaworthiness of the ship for the voyage at the time when the voyage commences and to keep her in a seaworthy condition for the voyage during the same...
Page 19 - ... co-employe the plaintiff had fallen into the hole in the floor, and received the injury complained of. The court was asked to declare the law upon these facts, and to say that, if they were found by the jury, there was no negligence to be imputed to the defendant, and no responsibility for the injury. The question of the liability of an employer for an injury to...
Page 16 - But, whatever criticisms might be justified by the ambitious title of "the Association for the Reform and Codification of the Laws of Nations...
Page 13 - Memorandum viz., an exemption from loss by "unseaworthiness of the ship, provided all reasonable means have been taken to provide against unseaworthiness.
Page 7 - Of this number 100 were fishing vessels, leaving 254 for all other kinds of British vessels, and in this number are included boats as small as one ton.