CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
Editors' Preface[v]
Author's Preface[ix]
I.Maritime Law[1]
1.General Maritime Law[1]
2.Sources in United States[1]
3.Courts[2]
4.Jurisdiction[2]
A.The Ship[2]
B.The Waters[3]
5.Maritime Contracts and Torts[4]
6.Personality of Ship[5]
7.Limits of Liability[5]
8.Equitable Principles[6]
9.General Considerations[6]
II.Title and Transfer[10]
1.How Title Acquired[10]
2.Registration and Regulation[10]
3.Shipbuilding Contracts[10]
4.Not Within Admiralty Jurisdiction[12]
5.Enrollment and Registration[12]
6.Ships Entitled to[12]
7.Incidents of Enrollment or Registration[13]
8.How Obtained[14]
9.Recording of American-built Foreign Ships[16]
10.Name[16]
11.Sale[17]
12.Transfer of Flag and Sales to Foreigners[17]
13.Admiralty Sales[18]
14.Sales by Trustees and Executors[19]
15.Sales by Mortgagee[19]
16.Sales by Master[19]
17.Sale of Ship at Sea[22]
18.Appurtenances[23]
19.Warranties and Representations[23]
III.Owners and Managers[25]
1.Who May Be[25]
2.Part-owners[25]
3.Corporations[27]
4. Majority Interest[28]
5.Minority Interest[28]
6.Suits Between Part-Owners[30]
7.Authority of Owner[30]
8.Obligation of Owner[30]
9.Liability of Owner[31]
10.Temporary Ownership[33]
11.Managing Owner[36]
12.Compensation and Lien[37]
IV.The Master[39]
1.Appointment and General Authority[39]
2.Personal Liability[41]
3.Restriction on Authority[41]
4.Rights of Master[43]
5.Wages[43]
6.Lien[44]
7.Relations to Cargo[45]
8.Power to Sell or Mortgage Cargo[46]
9.Power to Sell Vessel[50]
10.Power to Create Liens[50]
11.Duties on Disaster[51]
12.Log Book and Protests[52]
V.Seamen[54]
1.Favored in Maritime Law[54]
2.Who Are Seamen?[54]
3.Contract[55]
4.Wages Secured[55]
5.Forfeitures and Punishments[55]
6.Personal Injuries[56]
7.Duties in Disaster[58]
8.Offenses of Seamen[59]
9.When Entitled to Leave Ship[60]
10.Desertion[60]
11.Self-Defense[61]
12.Lien for Wages[61]
13.Shipping Articles[63]
14.Wages and Effects[64]
15.Protection and Relief[66]
VI.Carriage by Sea[69]
1.Common and Private Carriers[69]
2.Liabilities[69]
3.Seaworthiness[70]
4.Loading and Stowage[72]
5.Wreck or Stranding[75]
6.Arrival and Discharge[76]
7.Freight and Demurrage[77]
8.Unfair Freight Rates[79]
9.Passengers[79]
10.Reciprocal Duties[79]
11.Baggage[81]
12.Personal Injuries[81]
13.Loss of Life[83]
VII.Contracts of Affreightment, Bills of Lading and Charter Parties[86]
1.Definitions[86]
2.Seaworthiness[87]
3.Deviation[88]
4.Perils of the Sea[89]
5.Fire[89]
6.Restraint of Princes[90]
7.Freight[91]
(a)Dead Freight[91]
(b)When Freight is Earned[91]
8.Contracts of Affreightment[91]
9.Bills of Lading[92]
10.Statements in Bills of Lading[96]
11.Negotiability of Bills of Lading[98]
12.Duration of Carrier's Liability[99]
13.Exceptions in Bills of Lading[99]
14.Valuation[99]
15.Notice of Claim[100]
16.Nature and Effect of Charter Party[100]
17.Subcharters[101]
18.Provisions in Charter Parties[101]
(a)Safe Port[101]
(b)Insurance[102]
(c)Redelivery[102]
(d)Cancellation and Withdrawal[102]
(e)Breakdown Clause[102]
19.Lien for Freight and Charter Hire[103]
20.Liability for Loss or Damage[104]
21.Demurrage and Laydays[105]
22.Breach of Charter[106]
23.Dissolution of Charter[107]
VIII.Liabilities and Limitations[112]
1.Liabilities of Ship[112]
2.Liabilities of Owner[112]
3.Liabilities of Charterer[113]
4.Liabilities of Mortgagee[113]
5.Liabilities of Underwriters[113]
6.Theories of Limitation[114]
7.Contract Limitations[115]
8.The Federal Statutes[115]
9."Privity or Knowledge"[117]
10.Harter Act[119]
11.Insurance[123]
12.Single Ship Companies[123]
IX.Maritime Liens[125]
1.How Created[125]
2.Essential Value[127]
3.Independent of Notice of Possession[127]
4.Secret[127]
5.Diligence Required[127]
6.Rules of Diligence[127]
7.Recording Liens on "Preferred Mortgage" Vessels[128]
8.Limited to Movable Things[129]
9.Priorities[129]
10.Lien for Repairs and Supplies[131]
11.Not Sole Remedy[134]
12.How Divested[134]
13.State Liens[135]
14.Builders' and Mechanics' Liens[136]
15.Foreign Liens[136]
16.Enforcement of Liens[137]
X.Mortgages and Bonds[138]
1.Definitions[138]
2.Bottomry Bonds[138]
3.Respondentia[140]
4.Necessity for Advances[141]
5.Mortgages[141]
6.Are Mortgages Maritime Contracts?[141]
7.When Postponed to Other Liens[142]
8.Form[143]
9.Recording[144]
10.Rights of Mortgagee[144]
11.Liabilities of Mortgagee[145]
12.Transfer and Payment[145]
13.Foreclosure[145]
XI.Collision[148]
1.Definition[148]
2.Liability Dependent on Negligence[148]
3.Tests of Negligence[149]
4.The Regulations[150]
5.Damage to Ship [151]
6.Damage to Cargo[152]
7.Damage to Crew and Passengers[155]
8.Contribution[155]
9.Division of Damages[155]
10.Lien[156]
11.Limitation of Liability[157]
12.Remedies[157]
13.Evidence[158]
XII.Towage and Pilotage[159]
1.Definition[159]
2.Towage Service[159]
3.Compensation[160]
4.Duty of Tug[160]
5.Duty of Tow[165]
6.Negligence[165]
7.Liability for Damage[168]
A.As Between Tug and Tow[168]
B.To Third Parties[169]
8.Pilots[172]
9.Duties[173]
10.Authority[174]
11.Compensation[174]
12.Negligence[175]
13.Liability of Ship[177]
XIII.Salvage and General Average[180]
1.Definitions[180]
2.What May Be Salved[180]
3.Salvor's Lien[181]
4.Amount of Reward[182]
5.Who May Be Salvors[183]
6.Distinction Between Towage and Salvage[184]
7.Distribution of Salvage Award[185]
8.Distribution of Liability for Payment[186]
9.Statutory Regulations[187]
10.Instances of Salvage Services[187]
11.Distinction Between General and Particular Average[189]
12.Essential Elements[189]
13.Instances of General Average[190]
14.The Adjustment[191]
XIV.Crimes Committed at Sea[193]
1.Definition[193]
2.Admiralty Criminal Jurisdiction[193]
3.Place of Trial[194]
4.Offenses Not Consummated on Shipboard[194]
5.Penalties and Forfeitures[195]
6.Federal Criminal Code[196]
7.Concurrent Jurisdictions[197]
8.Limitations of Prosecutions[198]
9.Piracy[198]
10.Barratry[199]
11.Failure to Equip with Radio Telegraph[200]
12.Failure to Disclose Liens[200]
13.Mutiny[200]
XV.Wrecks and Derelicts[202]
1.Definitions[202]
2.Wrecks Under the Common Law[202]
3.Wrecks Within Admiralty Jurisdiction[204]
4.Liabilities of Owner of Wreck[205]
5.Rights of Landowner[205]
6.Owner's Rights[206]
7.Rights of Government[206]
8.Derelicts[207]
9.Finders[207]
XVI.Wharfage and Moorage[209]
1.Definition[209]
2.Right to Erect[209]
3.Duties of Proprietor[210]
4.Rights of Proprietor[212]
5.Wharfage Compensation[213]
6.Lien[214]
7.Injuries to Wharves[214]
8.Anchorage[215]
9.Obstructions to Navigation[216]
XVII.Admiralty Remedies[218]
1.Proceedings in Rem[218]
2.When Proceedings in Rem Will Lie[219]
3.The Libel[219]
4.The Writ or Process[220]
5.Owner's Rights[220]
6.Default[220]
7.Interlocutory Sales[221]
8.Intervenors[221]
9.Costs and Expenses[221]
10.Proceedings in Personam[222]
11.Process in Personam[222]
12.Proceedings in Limitation of Liability[222]
APPENDICES
I.Summary of Navigation Laws of the United States[225]
II.The Merchant Marine Act of 1920[263]
III.Protest[290]
Table of Cases[291]
Index[299]

THE LAW OF THE SEA

CHAPTER I
MARITIME LAW