The law of the sea

One of the reasons for the continued vitality of the admiralty lies in the efficiency of the remedies which it affords. If it were not for these it is quite possible that it wou...

=1. Definitions.=--Contracts of affreightment are for the carriage of goods in vessels. This definition is sufficiently comprehensive to include contracts evidenced by bills of...

=1. Definition.=--Towage is the service rendered by one vessel to another in moving her from point to point under ordinary circumstances of navigation. Pilotage is the navigatio...

The purpose of the ship is the carriage of goods and passengers and the earning of freight- and passenger-money. The underlying purpose of the maritime law is to facilitate thes...

=1. Appointment and General Authority.=--The master is the commander of a merchant vessel. He has full charge of, and personal responsibility for the navigation and control of t...

=1. How Title Acquired.=--Title to a ship is acquired in the same ways as other personal property, by construction, purchase, gift or exchange. It may pass by delivery, without...

=1. Favored in Maritime Law.=--The general maritime law has always endeavored to protect the rights of seamen and its solicitude for their welfare has been expressed in the laws...

=1. Who May Be.=--The owner of an American vessel must be a citizen of the United States. The statutes provide that "Vessels registered pursuant to law and no others, except suc...

=1. How Created.=--In general and within the limits hereinafter mentioned, every service rendered to a ship and every injury done by a ship, creates a maritime lien upon her for...

=1. Definitions.=--Salvage may be defined as a legal liability which is created by the rescue of maritime property from perils of the sea. It may be quite independent of contrac...

must be afloat in the water to warrant recourse to the admiralty courts, and certainly must not be permanently attached to the shore, nevertheless the jurisdiction has been exer...

Docks, German port facilities turned over to Shipping Board by Merchant Marine Act, 271 insurance of, under Merchant Marine Act, 269 investigation of, by Shipping Board, under M...

=1. Definitions.=--A vessel mortgage is a conveyance of the ship as security. A bottomry bond is a contract in the nature of a mortgage by which the ship is pledged as security...

=1. Definition.=--Wharves are structures made to facilitate and aid commerce and navigation and are essential to maritime affairs. They are classed as public and private and fre...

=1. General Maritime Law.=--Navigation and commerce by sea are regulated by maritime law. This is a branch of jurisprudence which developed out of the necessities of the busines...

=1. Liabilities of Ship.=--As elsewhere observed, the ship resembles a person in maritime law and has a corresponding liability. In general, she is responsible for every benefit...

=1. Definitions.=--In a legal sense, the word wreck includes ships and cargoes, or any parts thereof, which have been cast on shore by the sea, and derelict applies to similar p...

Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled, that it shall not be lawful for the manager, agent, master or own...

incitement of revolt or mutiny; seamen laying violent hands on commanders; abandonment of mariners in foreign ports; conspiracy to cast away vessels; plundering vessels in distr...

=1. Definition.=--A crime consists in the violation of a public law either forbidding or commanding an act to be done. One act may constitute several crimes against different ju...

=1. Definition.=--In maritime law, collision is the impact of ship against ship, although usage is increasing the scope of the word so as to include contact with other floating...