Handbook of Admiralty LawWest Publishing Company, 1920 - 572 pages |
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Common terms and phrases
28 Stat 30 Stat Act Aug Act Feb Act June admiralty courts admiralty law admiralty rule affreightment amended anchor appeal apply average barratry bill of lading blast boats bottomry cargo carry charter party Circuit Court claim clause common-law Compagnie Générale Transatlantique contract court held crew damage decisions decree District Court doctrine duty enforce English fact fault freight give harbor injury Inland Rules interest Judge June 26 liability libel lien Marine Insurance maritime law maritime lien master miles miralty necessary negligence peril person personam pilot pilotage proceeding question regulate rendered repairs right of action risk of collision river sail vessel salvors seamen seaworthy ship signals starboard statute steam steam-vessel steamer stevedore stipulation suit Supreme Court thence tion tort Transp U. S. Comp underwriter United vessel owner voyage Wall white light
Popular passages
Page 436 - When a vessel is in distress and requires assistance from other vessels or from the shore the following shall be the signals to be used or displayed by her, either together or separately, namely : In the daytime: First. A gun or other explosive signal fired at intervals of about a minute. Second. The international code signal of distress indicated by NC Third.
Page 444 - Nothing in these rules shall interfere with the operation of any special rules made by the government of any nation with respect to additional station and signal lights for two or more ships of war or for vessels sailing under convoy...
Page 468 - When two steam- vessels are meeting end on, or nearly end on, so as to involve risk of collision, each shall alter her course to starboard, so that each may pass on the port side of the other.
Page 353 - ... the amount or value of the interest of such owner in such vessel and her freight then pending.
Page 419 - ... points of the compass, so fixed as to throw the light from right ahead to two points abaft the beam on...
Page 417 - That in every case of collision between two vessels it shall be the duty of the master or person in charge of each vessel, if and so far as he can do so without serious danger to his own vessel, crew, and passengers...
Page 419 - ... points abaft the beam on the starboard side, and of such a character as to be visible at a distance of at least two miles.
Page 435 - In obeying and construing these rules due regard shall be had to all dangers of navigation and collision, and to any special circumstances which may render a departure from the above rules necessary in order to avoid immediate danger.
Page 429 - A vessel under one hundred and fifty feet in length, when at anchor, shall carry forward, where it can best be seen, but at a height not exceeding twenty feet above the hull, a white light in a lantern so constructed as to show a clear, uniform, and unbroken light visible all round the horizon at a distance of at least one mile.
Page 447 - ... so in doubt shall immediately signify the same by giving several short and rapid blasts, not less than four, of the steam whistle.