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Lord Vs. Steamship Company

Court : US Supreme Court

..... single question presented by the assignment of errors is whether congress has power to regulate the liability of the owners of vessels navigating the high seas, but engaged only in the transportation of goods and passengers between ports and places in the ..... the owner of any vessel for any embezzlement, loss, or destruction by any person of any property, goods, or merchandise, shipped or put on board of such vessel or for any loss, damage, or injury by collision, or for any act, matter, or thing lost, damage or forfeiture done, occasioned, or incurred without the privity or knowledge of such owner or owners, shall in no case exceed the amount of the value of the interest of such owner in such vessel and her freight then pending ..... the seven preceding sections relating to the limitation of the liability of the owners of vessels shall not apply to the owners of any canal boat, barge, or lighter or to any vessel of any description whatsoever used in rivers or inland navigation. ..... while navigating the high seas between ports of the same state, a vessel of the united states is, together with the business in which she is engaged, subject to the regulating power ..... 4283 are not applicable to vessels used in rivers or inland navigation, and this legislation therefore is relieved from the objection that proved fatal to the trademark law which was considered in trade-mark cases, page ..... she was navigating among the vessels of other nations, and was treated by them as belonging to the country whose .....

Craig Vs. Continental Ins. Co.

Court : US Supreme Court

..... exception was not, in terms, of negligence generally, but only of negligence of the owners, it would be a strong construction of the act to hold that the exception extended "to the officers and crews of the vessels, as representing the owners;" that section 6 of the act (now 4287 of the revised statutes) showed that it was the purpose of the preceding sections to release the owner from some liability for ..... loss or damage which may happen to any merchandise whatsoever which shall be shipped, taken in, or put on board any such vessel by reason or by means of any fire's happening to or on board the vessel unless such fire is caused by the design or neglect or such owner," that, in order to make the owner of a vessel, in case of loss by fire, liable for negligence, it must appear that the owner had directly participated in the negligence. ..... for the eastern district of michigan syllabus the provisions of 4283 of the revised statutes relieving the owner of a vessel from liability for a loss occasioned without his privity or knowledge apply to an insurance company to which, as insurer, a vessel has been abandoned, and which was charged with negligence in causing the vessel to be so towed that she sank and became a total loss, and the life of an employee on board ..... apply to a vessel used on the great lakes, she not being "used in rivers or inland navigation" within ..... the restriction of the statute by 4289 to vessels not "used in rivers or inland navigation" does not apply to the enterprise .....

The Oregon

Court : US Supreme Court

..... december 31, 1889, by the filing of a libel in admiralty by john simpson, master of the british ship clan mackenzie against the steamer oregon to recover damages for a collision between the two vessels which occurred december 27th in the columbia river about a mile above a point in the river known as "coffin rock light," and resulted in the sinking of the clan mackenzie and the loss ..... respond to the full amount of their stipulation or to an amount sufficient to pay all the claims, the result would be that the interveners, who had taken no steps to arrest the vessel, and were admitted under the original libel of simpson, might be able to appropriate to themselves the whole or the greater part of the fund, and leave the original libelant wholly unprovided for ..... appeals from the circuit court of the united states for the district of oregon syllabus a steamer steaming in a dark night at the rate of fifteen miles an hour through a narrow inland channel where a local pilot is put in charge of it, should have a lookout stationed on either bow, and the master should be on deck; but a failure to comply with ..... alone and unexplained by the other provisions of the act of which it was a part, it would seem to apply only to american vessels, since congress could hardly have intended to make it the duty of collectors to require foreign sail vessels to be furnished with proper signal lights, even if ..... to the navigation of such vessels within the harbors, lakes, and inland waters of the united states. .....

Central Inland Water Transport Corporation Ltd. Vs. Seventh Industrial ...

Court : Kolkata

Reported in : (1983)ILLJ157Cal

..... employees who cannot be taken over shall be paid by the transferor company all moneys due to them under the law and all legitimate and legal compensations payable to them either under industrial disputes act or otherwise legally admissible and that such moneys shall be provided by the government of india to the existing transferor company who will pay these dues. ..... not be taken over by the corporation would be paid by the company all moneys due to them under the law and all legitimate and legal compensations payable to those employees either under industrial disputes act or otherwise legally admissible and that such moneys would be provided by the government to the company who would pay those dues. ..... calcutta-1 and their workmen represented by the inland steam navigation workers' union, 16/17, college street, calcutta-12 relating to the undermentioned issue being a matter specified in the second schedule to the industrial disputes act, 1947 (xiv of 1947); and whereas it is expedient that the said dispute should be referred to an industrial tribunal constituted under section 7a of the said act;now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 10 of the industrial disputes act, 1947 (xiv of 1947), the governor ..... the company had to close down its business during indo-pakistan conflict in 1966 as large number of vessels of the company had been seized by the pakistan government. ..... it also owned a rajabagan dock-yard, a large enterprise in calcutta for repairing vessels etc. .....

The Circassian

Court : US Supreme Court

..... may be collected from bills of lading of cargo, from letters and papers found on board the captured vessel, from acts and words of the owners or hirers of the vessel and the shippers of the cargo and their agents, and from the spoliation of papers in apprehension of capture ..... adoption and allegiance, let me say to you that the man lives not in our midst whose hand and heart would not be paralyzed at the mere thought of such an act; nor can i find in my entire constituency so wretched and desperate a renegade as would dare to profane with his hand the sacred emblem of our aspirations. . . . ..... a public blockade -- that is to say a blockade regularly notified to neutral governments, and as such distinguished from a simple blockade or such as may be established by a naval officer acting on his own discretion, or under direction of his superiors -- must, in the absence of clear proof of a discontinuance of it, be presumed to continue until notification is given by the ..... an inland port, the most effective blockade would be maintained by batteries commanding the river or inlet by which it may be approached, supported by a naval force sufficient to warn off innocent and capture offending vessels attempting ..... by batteries on shore as well as by ships afloat, and, in case of an inland port, may be maintained by batteries commanding the river or inlet by which it may be approached, supported by a naval force sufficient to warn off innocent and capture offending vessels attempting to enter. 2. .....

The Siren

Court : US Supreme Court

..... formerly erroneously considered as vested in a certain proportion of it, in the capturing ships under the prize acts, but in a great and important case lately decided, [ footnote 14 ] it was determined that the whole was entirely out of the effect of those prize acts, and in so deciding, determined by direct and included consequence, that the words 'prizes taken by any of her majesty's ships or vessels of war' cannot apply to any other cases than those in which captures are made ..... prior, and up to the morning of the 17th of february, 1865, a naval force of the united states, composed of the gladiolus and twenty-six other vessels of war, were blockading the port of charleston and assisting to reduce the city, a force operating also by land in the same general designs. ..... 390 to land, a boy on shore gave information that the siren, a blockade-runner, a vessel of force inferior to the gladiolus, had run in during the night and was lying in ashley river, which makes a west entrance inland from the bay where the blockading fleet was stationed. ..... it has been suggested that the capture was within the 7th section of the act of the 2d of july, 1864, [ footnote 17 ] which declares that "no property seized or taken upon any of the inland waters of the united states by the naval forces thereof shall be regarded as maritime prize," &c. .....

Oakes Vs. United States

Court : US Supreme Court

..... hand, it appears by the facts found by the court of claims that the eastport, while waterborne, was boarded and taken by detachments of men in small boats from three united states gunboats, armed vessels, commanded by a lieutenant in the navy and part of the naval forces on the western waters, commanded by a captain in the navy, who reported the capture to the secretary of the navy, and ..... the time of the capture of the eastport, the gunboats and the naval forces of the united states on those rivers were under the control of the war department, that she has on inland waters, and could not be regarded as maritime prize, that she was lying dismantled by the bank of a river, where the seizure might as well have been made by a detachment from ..... been used or was in condition for use in any hostile demonstration against the united states, she was boarded under the fire of the enemy (whether that fire was from the vessel or from the land does not appear) and captured by detachments of men in small boats from three united states gunboats commanded by a lieutenant in the navy and part of ..... or privateer, or when any goods, which shall hereafter be taken as prize by any vessel acting under authority from the government of the united states, shall appear to have before belonged to any person or persons resident within or under the protection of the united ..... not made on the banks of the river, but some distance inland, where the vessels could render no other assistance than to land the forces and .....

Chola Fish and Farms Private Ltd. Vs. Commissioner of Income-tax

Court : Chennai

Reported in : (1986)57CTR(Mad)119; [1987]166ITR601(Mad)

..... is relevant for our purpose is that in that case also, the bench considered part i of appendix i of the rules where the categories of ships covered for the purpose of depreciation, as an inherent indication of the broad classification of vessels which will come within the word 'ship' for the purpose of the income-tax act and that the ratio of that classification could be applied in interpreting the word for the purpose of development rebate under section 33. ..... we also find that for the purpose of section 32 of the income-tax act which provides for depreciation in respect of certain classes of vessels, part i of appendix i to the income-tax rules, 1962, describes ship as a class of vessel and under the heading of 'ships', four different classes of ships are mentioned : '(1) oceangoing ships - (i) fishing vessels with wooden hull (ii) other ships (2) vessels ordinarily operating on inland waters - (i) speed boats (ii) other vessels.' 7. ..... as will be seen from this description of 'ship' as a class of vessels, for the purpose of depreciation of the vessels including trawlers, it would come within the word 'ship' and the percentage of depreciation is put only with reference to the ocean-going ships and vessels ordinarily operating on inland waters. ..... the word 'ship' has been defined in the carriage of goods act, 1925, as meaning any vessel used for the carriage in the marine insurance act of 1963 has been defined as including every description of vessel used in navigation. .....

Apar Private Ltd. and Others Vs. Union of India and Others

Court : Mumbai

Reported in : 1986(1)BomCR196; (1986)88BOMLR355; 1985(6)ECC241; 1988(19)LC514(Bombay); 1985(22)ELT644(Bom)

..... any other purpose, it becomes necessary to determine the precise time to the importation of any goods, or of the arrival or departure of any vessel, such importation, if made by sea, coastwise or by inland navigation in any decked vessel, shall be deemed to have been completed from the time the vessel in which such goods were imported came within the limits of the port at which they ought to be reported, (underlined to draw attention to ..... leviable on certain goods, customs duty itself is not leviable on such imported goods, no question of calculating the customs duty leviable at any particular rate specified either under the customs tariff act or any other law for the time being in force arises.the crucial question, therefore, would be : when can the goods be said to be 'imported into india' and ..... additional customs duty is withdrawn before the date of clearance of the goods they would be chargeable on the value and at the rates mentioned in sections 14 and 15 of the customs act.in short, if the goods are wholly exempt from basic customs duty irrespective of whether they are exempt from the levy of additional duty, wholly or partially, they would still be ..... are imported or attempted to be imported or are brought within the indian customs waters for the purpose of being imported contrary to any prohibition imposed by or under the customs act or any other law for the time being in force, in our view, does not in any way support the contention that the import is not complete until goods are .....

Chola Fish and Farms P. Ltd. Vs. Commissioner of Income Tax

Court : Chennai

Reported in : (1996)132CTR(Mad)358; [1996]217ITR609(Mad)

..... of the it act which provides for depreciation in respect of certain classes of vessels, part i of appendix i to the it rules, 1962 describes ship as a class of vessels and under the heading of 'ships', four different classes of ships are mentioned : (1) ocean-going ships -(i) fishing vessels with wooden hull,(ii) other ships(2) vessels ordinarily operating on inland waters -(i) speed boats,(ii) other vessels'.as will be seen from this description of 'ship' as a class of vessels, for the purpose of depreciation of the vessels including trawlers, it ..... is that in that case also, the bench considered part i of appendix i of the rules where the categories of ships covered for the purpose of depreciation, as an inherent indication of the broad classification of vessels which will come within the word 'ship' for the purpose of the it act and that the ratio of that classification could be applied in interpreting the word for the purpose of development rebate under s. 33. ..... would come within the word 'ship' and the percentage of depreciation is put only with reference to the ocean-going ships and vessels ordinarily operating on inland waters. .....