Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Admiralty, Volume 2

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Page 184 - In any legal proceeding to recover such compensation, the person giving security shall be made defendant, and the production of the order of the judge, made in relation to the security, shall be conclusive evidence of the liability of the defendant to the proceeding.
Page 53 - ... as a security for repayment. It is moreover stipulated, that if the ship is lost in the course of the voyage, by any of the perils enumerated in the contract, the lender also shall lose his money ; but if the ship shall arrive safe, then he shall be paid back his principal, and also the interest agreed upon, called marine interest, however this may exceed the legal rate of interest.
Page 51 - ... then this obligation to be void and of no effect, otherwise to remain in full force and virtue.
Page 436 - Stafford from the time whereof the memory of Man is not to the contrary, have...
Page 110 - The state of slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only...
Page 128 - Instead of being condemned as malus usus, it was regarded as a most eminent source of its riches and power. It was at a late period of the last century that it was condemned in England as an institution ' not fit to exist here, for reasons peculiar to our own condition ; but it has been continued in our colonies...
Page 174 - Hagg. opposite directions, and there is the least doubt of their going clear, the ship on the starboard tack is to persevere in her course ; while that on the larboard is to bear up, or keep more away from the wind...
Page 87 - Mortgage, thereof, shall be made only as a — Security for the Payment of a Debt or Debts, either by way of Mortgage, or of Assignment to a Trustee or Trustees for the Purpose of selling the same for the Payment of any Debt or Debts, THEN and in every such Case the Collector and Comptroller...
Page 371 - Admiral, or to the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral for the Time being, or any...
Page 154 - The result of the evidence will be one of three alternatives, either a conviction in your mind that the loss was occasioned by accident, in which case it must be sustained by the party on whom it has fallen ; or a state of reasonable doubt as to the preponderance of evidence, which will have nearly the same effect; or third, a conviction that the party charged with being the cause of the accident is justly chargeable with the loss of this vessel according to the rules of navigation which ought to...

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