EVOLUTIONAs per the Resolution 6 passed at the Glasgow Conference 1860: That the expense of warehouse rent at a port of refuge on cargo necessarily discharged there, the expense of reshipping it, and the outward ..
Rules of York-AntwerpRule IIIExtinguishing Fire on Shipboard Damage done to a ship and cargo, or either of them, by water or otherwise, including damage by beaching or scuttling a burning ship, in extinguishing a fire on board the ship, shall be mad ..
Rule 1Jettison of cargo "No jettison of cargo shall be made good as general average, unless such cargo is carried in accordance with the recognized custom of the trade.� Evolution of the rule ..
GENERAL AVERAGE- ANCIENT AND MODERN �O hear us when we cry to theefor those peril on the sea� The stirring words of the well-known hymn remind us that the transport of products over the ocean from one country to the other is still a hazar ..
Territorial SeaDevelopment of Law of SeaThe law of the sea, which exists in the codified form today was totally different in the past and was much concerned and associated with the customary rules and was observed by the States as customary rules of ..
Miguel De Cervantes had aptly quoted-�He that publishes a book runs a very great hazard, since nothing can be more impossible than to compose one that may secure that approbation of every reader.� With the divine dev ..
NEnglish statutory laws and non-statutory laws relating to Admiralty jurisdiction prevailed in India till the commencement of the Constitution, and thereafter they have continued as �law in force� in terms ..
A detailed analysis of the causes of crimes among youth and also a thorough study of the juvenile justice policy adopted by India following the guidelines laid down by international bodies. Frederick Douglass had once said, �It is easier to bu ..
Description of VesselStatements describing the vessel�s gross and/or net register, the deadweight and cubic capacity, and speed and class are included in charters. The registered tonnage does not indicate the vessel�s carrying capacity an ..
CARGO DAMAGE LAW: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND General BackgroundSpecial protection should be afforded by a cargo owner who shipped his goods by a marine carrier, it was believed at common law; he was prevented, by geographic remoteness, from closely superv ..