An Epitome of the Law Affecting Charter-parties and Bills of Lading |
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An Epitome of the Law Relating to Charter-Parties and Bills of Lading ... Lawrence Duckworth No preview available - 2016 |
An Epitome of the Law Relating to Charter-Parties and Bills of Lading Lawrence Duckworth No preview available - 2013 |
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šSee action agent agreement assignment authority Barrister-at-Law benefit berth bill of lading bind bound breach broker buyer captain Cardiff cargo carrier carry cesser clause charter-party charterers circumstances claim condition precedent consignee contained contract of carriage Court of Appeal custom damage decided default defendants delay deliver delivery demurrage detention disbursements discharge Dowlais Company duty Edition entitled evidence fraud freighter given held hire indorsement judgment Lading Act Lagom Law Relating liable lien Lord Lord Alverstone Lord Esher Lord Herschell master ment mercantile Merchant Shipping Act navigation negligence Netley Abbey notice ordinary owners paid party payment perform perils person plaintiff port of loading possession Price principal put on board question reason receipt received sail servants ship's husband shipment shipowner shipper sign bills Steamship stipulation Tables Telegraph Code tion tons Torbryan unless vessel voyage WALTER SMITH warranty West Hartlepool West India Dock
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Page 130 - That if the owner of any vessel transporting merchandise or property to or from any port in the United States of America shall exercise due diligence to make the said vessel in all respects seaworthy and properly manned, equipped, and supplied...
Page 75 - Furthermore, every bill of lading in the hands of a consignee or indorsee 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 64 - ... (3) If goods are delivered to a ship chartered by the buyer, it is a question depending on the circumstances of the particular case, whether they are in the possession of the master as a carrier or as agent of the buyer.
Page 136 - Ship called the whereof is Master for this present Voyage and now riding at Anchor in the and bound for to say being marked and numbered as in the Margin, and are to be delivered...
Page 117 - ... 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...
Page 117 - ... silks in a manufactured or. unmanufactured state, and whether wrought up or not wrought up with other materials...
Page 28 - I take it to be a general rule, that if a person sells goods (supposing at the time of the contract he is dealing with a principal), but afterwards discovers that the person with whom he has been dealing is not the principal in the transaction, but agent for a third person, though he may in the mean time have debited the agent with it, he may afterwards recover the amount from the real principal...
Page 97 - ... affected by any sale, or other disposition of the goods which the buyer may have made, unless the seller has assented thereto. Provided that where a document of title to goods has been lawfully transferred to any person as buyer or owner of the goods, and that person transfers the document to a person who takes the document in good faith and for valuable consideration, then, if such last-mentioned transfer was by...
Page 134 - ... tight, staunch and strong, and in every way fitted for the voyage, shall with all convenient speed sail and proceed to...
Page 97 - Subject to the provisions of this section, a contract of sale is not rescinded by the mere exercise by an unpaid seller of his right of lien or retention or stoppage in transitu.