A Treatise on the Law Relative to Merchant Ships and Seamen: In Four Parts; I. Of the Owners of Merchant Ships; II. Of the Persons Employed in the Navigation Thereof; III. Of the Carriage of Goods Therein; IV. Of the Wages of Merchant SeamenReprint of the third American edition. Abbott's treatise is "a legal classic of high character." This edition enriched by Joseph Story's scrupulous and impressive scholarship evident in his own notes, often mini-essays in their own right, kept separate from Abbott's. Marvin 47. First published in 1802, it was the first English treatise devoted exclusively to the law of shipping. |
Contents
Of the Owners of Ships in general 1 | 1 |
Of Property in British Ships 26 29 | 29 |
Of PartOwners 82 103 | 92 |
Of the Authority of the Master with | 131 |
saries furnished to the Ship 124 142 | 142 |
Of the Behaviour of the Master | 160 |
Of Pilots 180 212 | 213 |
Of the general Duties of the Master | 251 |
of General or Gross Average | 375 |
CHAP IX | 402 |
Of Salvage | 431 |
Of the Dissolution of Contracts for | 454 |
PART THE FOURTH | 461 |
of Wages | 528 |
No I | 543 |
No V | 550 |
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