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THE LAW OF THE SEA

EDITORS' PREFACE

AUTHORS' PREFACE

CONTENTS

1. General Maritime Law.—

2. Sources in United States.—

3. Courts.—

4. Jurisdiction.—

5. Maritime Contracts and Torts.—

6. Personality of Ship.—

7. Limits of Liability.—

8. Equitable Principles.—

9. General Considerations.—

REFERENCES FOR GENERAL READING

1. How Title Acquired.—

2. Registration and Regulation.—

3. Shipbuilding Contracts.—

4. Not Within Admiralty Jurisdiction.—

5. Enrollment and Registration.—

6. Ships Entitled to.—

7. Incidents of Enrollment or Registration.—

8. How Obtained.—

9. Recording of American-built Foreign Ships.—

10. Name.—

11. Sale.—

12. Transfer of Flag and Sales to Foreigners.—

13. Admiralty Sales.—

14. Sales by Trustees and Executors.—

15. Sales by Mortgagee.—

16. Sales by Master.—

17. Sale of Ship at Sea.—

18. Appurtenances.—

19. Warranties and Representations.—

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1. Who May Be.—

2. Part-Owners.—

3. Corporations.—

4. Majority Interest.—

5. Minority Interest.—

6. Suits between Part-Owners.—

7. Authority of Owner.—

8. Obligation of Owner.—

9. Liability of Owner.—

10. Temporary Ownership.—

11. Managing Owner.—

12. Compensation and Lien.—

REFERENCES FOR GENERAL READING

1. Appointment and General Authority.—

2. Personal Liability.—

3. Restriction on Authority.—

4. Rights of Master.—

5. Wages.—

6. Lien.—

7. Relations to Cargo.—

8. Power to Sell or Mortgage Cargo.—

9. Power to Sell Vessel.—

10. Power to Create Liens.—

11. Duties on Disaster.—

12. Log Book and Protests.—

REFERENCES FOR GENERAL READING

1. Favored in Maritime Law.—

2. Who Are Seamen?—

3. Contract.—

4. Wages Secured.—

5. Forfeitures and Punishments.—

6. Personal Injuries.—

7. Duties in Disaster.—

8. Offenses of Seamen.—

9. When Entitled to Leave Ship.—

10. Desertion.—

11. Self-defense.—

12. Lien for Wages.—

13. Shipping Articles.—

14. Wages and Effects.—

15. Protection and Relief.—

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1. Common and Private Carriers.—

2. Liabilities.—

3. Seaworthiness.—

4. Loading and Stowage.—

5. Wreck or Stranding.—

6. Arrival and Discharge.—

7. Freight and Demurrage.—

8. Unfair Freight Rates.—

9. Passengers.—

10. Reciprocal Duties.—

11. Baggage.—

12. Personal Injuries.—

13. Loss of Life.—

REFERENCES FOR GENERAL READING

1. Definitions.—

2. Seaworthiness.—

3. Deviation.—

4. Perils of the Sea.—

5. Fire.—

6. Restraint of Princes.—

7. Freight.—

8. Contracts of Affreightment.—

9. Bills of Lading.—

10. Statements in Bills of Lading.—

11. Negotiability of Bills of Lading.—

12. Duration of Carrier's Liability.—

13. Exceptions in Bills of Lading.—

14. Valuation.—

15. Notice of Claim.—

16. Nature and Effect of Charter Party.—

17. Subcharters.—

18. Provisions in Charter Parties.—

19. Lien for Freight and Charter Hire.—

20. Liability for Loss or Damage.—

21. Demurrage and Laydays.—

22. Breach of Charter.—

23. Dissolution of Charter.—

REFERENCES FOR READING

1. Liabilities of Ship.—

2. Liabilities of Owner.—

3. Liabilities of Charterer.—

4. Liabilities of Mortgagee.—

5. Liabilities of Underwriters.—

6. Theories of Limitation.—

7. Contract Limitations.—

8. The Federal Statutes.—

9. "Privity or Knowledge."—

10. Harter Act.—

11. Insurance.—

12. Single Ship Companies.—

REFERENCES FOR GENERAL READING

1. How Created.—

2. Essential Value.—

3. Independent of Notice or Possession.—

4. Secret.—

5. Diligence Required.—

6. Rules of Diligence.—

7. Recording Liens on "Preferred Mortgage" Vessels.—

8. Limited to Movable Things.—

9. Priorities.—

10. Lien for Repairs and Supplies.—

11. Not Sole Remedy.—

12. How Divested.—

13. State Liens.—

14. Builders' and Mechanics' Liens.—

15. Foreign Liens.—

16. Enforcement of Liens.—

REFERENCES FOR GENERAL READING

1. Definitions.—

2. Bottomry Bonds.—

3. Respondentia.—

4. Necessity for Advances.—

5. Mortgages.—

6. Are Mortgages Maritime Contracts?—

7. When Postponed to Other Liens.—

8. Form.—

9. Recording.—

10. Rights of Mortgagee.—

11. Liabilities of Mortgagee.—

12. Transfer and Payment.—

13. Foreclosure.—

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1. Definition.—

2. Liability Dependent on Negligence.—

3. Tests of Negligence.—

4. The Regulations.—

5. Damage to Ship.—

6. Damage to Cargo.—

7. Damage to Crew and Passengers.—

8. Contribution.—

9. Division of Damages.—

10. Lien.—

11. Limitation of Liability.—

12. Remedies.—

13. Evidence.—

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1. Definition.—

2. Towage Service.—

3. Compensation.—

4. Duty of Tug.—

5. Duty of Tow.—

6. Negligence.—

7. Liability for Damage.—

8. Pilots.—

9. Duties.—

10. Authority.—

11. Compensation.—

12. Negligence.—

13. Liability of the Ship.—

REFERENCES FOR GENERAL READING

1. Definitions.—

2. What May Be Salved.—

3. Salvor's Lien.—

4. Amount of Reward.—

5. Who May Be Salvors.—

6. Distinction Between Towage and Salvage.—

7. Distribution of Salvage Award.—

8. Distribution of Liability for Payment.—

9. Statutory Regulations.—

10. Instances of Salvage Services.—

11. Distinction Between General and Particular Average.—

12. Essential Elements.—

13. Instances of General Average.—

14. The Adjustment.—

1. Definition.—

2. Admiralty Criminal Jurisdiction.—

3. Place of Trial.—

4. Offenses Not Consummated on Shipboard.—

5. Penalties and Forfeitures.—

6. Federal Criminal Code.—

7. Concurrent Jurisdictions.—

8. Limitations of Prosecutions.—

9. Piracy.—

10. Barratry.—

11. Failure to Equip with Radio Telegraph.—

12. Failure to Disclose Liens.—

13. Mutiny.—

1. Definitions.—

2. Wrecks under the Common Law.—

3. Wrecks within Admiralty Jurisdiction.—

4. Liabilities of Owner of Wreck.—

5. Rights of Landowner.—

6. Owner's Rights.—

7. Rights of Government.—

8. Derelicts.—

9. Finders.—

1. Definition.—

2. Right to Erect.—

3. Duties of Proprietor.—

4. Rights of Proprietor.—

5. Wharfage Compensation.—

6. Lien.—

7. Injuries to Wharves.—

8. Anchorage.—

9. Obstructions to Navigation.—

1. Proceedings in Rem.—

2. When Proceedings in Rem Will Lie.—

3. The Libel.—

4. The Writ or Process.—

5. Owner's Rights.—

6. Default.—

7. Interlocutory Sales.—

8. Intervenors.—

9. Costs and Expenses.—

10. Proceedings in Personam.—

11. Process in Personam.—

12. Proceedings in Limitation of Liability.—

I. Ship Registry

II. Recording of Bills of Sale

III. Preferred Mortgages Under Merchant Marine Act

IV. Change of Name

V. Entry and Clearance

VI. Shipping Articles

VII. Licensing and Qualifications of Officers

VIII. Qualifications of Seamen

IX. Nationality of Officers and Crew

X. Wages

XI. Watch and Watch and Work-Day

XII. Provisions for Crew

XIII. Personal Injuries to Seamen and Recoveries for Death

XIV. Offenses by Seamen

XV. Rules of the Road

XVI. Pilotage

XVII. Length of Hawsers

XVIII. Inspection of Steam Vessels

XIX. Register Tonnage

XX. Tonnage Taxes

XXI. Navigation Fees

XXII. Annual List of Merchant Vessels

XXIII. Numbering of Undocumented Motor Boats

XXIV. Administration of Navigation Laws

XXV. The Shipping Board

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Sec. 37.

Sec. 38.

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