A Treatise on the Law of Civil Salvage

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Page 55 - includes any ship or boat, or any other description of vessel used in navigation; "Ship " includes every description of vessel used in navigation not propelled by oars...
Page 10 - Where a vessel is wrecked, stranded, or in distress at any place on or near the coasts of the United Kingdom or any tidal water within the limits of the United Kingdom...
Page 271 - The services shall be rendered and accepted as salvage services upon the principle of "no cure — no pay...
Page 72 - in its simple character, is the service which those who recover property from loss or danger at sea render to the owners, with the responsibility of making restitution, and with a lien for their reward.
Page 53 - Whenever any ship or boat is stranded or otherwise in distress on the shore of any sea or tidal water situate within the limits of the United Kingdom...
Page 6 - LJ, says:—"The general principle is, beyond all question, that work and labour done or money expended by one man to preserve or benefit the property of another do not, according to English law, create any lien upon the property saved or benefited, nor, even if standing alone, create any obligation to repay the expenditure.
Page 271 - The Contractor may make reasonable use of the vessel's machinery gear equipment anchors chains stores and other appurtenances during and for the purpose of the operations free of expense but shall not unnecessarily damage abandon or sacrifice the same or any property the subject of this Agreement.
Page 103 - When a steamboat engages to tow a vessel for a certain remuneration from one point to another she does not warrant that she will be able to do so, and will do so under all circumstances and at all hazards; but she does engage that she will use her best endeavours for that purpose, and will bring to the task competent skill and such a crew, tackle, and equipments as are reasonably to be expected in a vessel of her class.
Page 52 - ... where services are rendered by any person other than a receiver in saving any wreck, there shall be payable to the salvor by the owner of the vessel, cargo, apparel, or wreck, a reasonable amount of salvage to be determined in case of dispute in manner hereinafter mentioned.
Page 28 - A per•son 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.

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