 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 652 pages
...distress, proffers useful service and gives it as a volunteer adventurer without any pre-existing contract that connected him with the duty of employing himself for the preservation of the vessel. Enough appears in those definitions to show that the elements necessary to constitute a... | |
 | Charles Abbott (Baron Tenterden) - Maritime law - 1867 - 1178 pages
...salvor? A person who, without any particular relation to a ship in distress, proffers useful service, and gives it as a volunteer adventurer, without any...that ship; not so the crew, whose stipulated duty (to be compensated by payment of wages) it is to protect that ship through all perils, and whose entire... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - Average - 1868 - 702 pages
...salvor ? A person who, without any particular relation to a ship in distress, proffers useful service, and gives it as a volunteer adventurer, without any...stipulated duty it is (to be compensated by payment of wages) to protect that ship through all perils, and whose entire possible service for this purpo?e... | |
 | Robert Griffith Williams, Gainsford Bruce - Admiralty - 1869 - 732 pages
...useful service, and gives it ns a volunteer adventurer, without any pre-existing covenant connecting him with the duty of employing himself for the preservation of that ship. The Neptune, 1 Hagg. 236. The A lias, Lush. 482. (/) The Florence, 16 Jur. 572. By the Merchant Shipping... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 738 pages
...useful service, and gives it as a volunteer adventurer, without any pre-existing covenant connecting him with the duty of employing himself for the preservation of that ship."' And in The Mulgrave,§ he held that an agreement for a sum certain vitiates any claim for salvage;... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 726 pages
...salvor is one who, without any particular relation to a vessel in distress, proffers useful service, and gives it as a volunteer adventurer, without any...duty of employing himself for the preservation of the vessel.* Now the tug performed this exact kind of service. She was under no pre-existing contract,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 730 pages
...who, without any particular relation to a vessel in distress, proffers useful service, and gives it 0s a volunteer adventurer, without any pre-existing covenant...duty of employing himself for the preservation of the vessel.* Now the tug performed this exact kind of service. She was under no pre-existing contract,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1108 pages
...proffers useful service, and gives it as a volunteer adventurer, without any pre-existing contract that connected him with the duty of employing himself for the preservation of the vessel." Page 1C. The test as to whether services are voluntarily rendered is whether such services... | |
 | Rufus Waples - Actions in rem - 1882 - 862 pages
...any particular relation to a ship in distress. proffers useful service, and gives it as a voluntary adventurer •without any pre-existing covenant that...duty of employing himself for the preservation of the ship." He meant what we mean; but the latter part of his definition does not sufficiently distinguish... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 1072 pages
...distress, proffers useful service and gives it as a volunteer adventurer without any pre-existing contract that connected him with the duty of employing himself for the preservation of the vessel. Enough appears in those definitions to show that the elements necessary to constitute a... | |
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A person who, without any particular relation to a ship in distress, proffers useful service, and gives it as a volunteer adventurer, without any preexisting covenant that connected him with the duty of employing himself for the preservation of that ship. 
