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Oleron, an island lying in the Bay of Acquitain, at the mouth of the river Charente, formerly in the possession of England. The inhabitants of Oleron have been able mariners for seven or eight hundred years past. They are said to have drawn up the laws of the Navy still called the Laws of Oleron. According to some French writers these maritime laws were digested as the Reole des Jugemens d'Oleron, by direction of Queen Eleanor, wife of Henry II. as Duchess of Guienne, and enlarged and improved by her son Richard I. Selden (de Dom. Mar.c. xiv.) maintains that they were compiled and promulgated by Richard I. as King of England. Writers, as Mons. Boucher, of Paris, and the English Luders, consider the whole account fallacious. The former calls the more story of our Richard I. and Queen Eleanor une chimere des plus invraisemblables, Monthly Review, December, 1811; and see Nouveau Larousse, tom. vi. P. 488. The laws of Oleron were to a great extent the foundation of the maritime laws of mos...
Maritime law
Maritime law, the law relating to harbours, ships, and seamen. An important branch of the commercial law of maritime nations; divided into a variety of departments, such as those about harbours, property of ships, duties and rights of masters and seamen, contracts of affreightment, average salvage, etc. No system or code of maritime law has ever been issued by authority in Great Britain. The laws and practices that now obtain amongst us have been founded on the practice of merchants, the principles of the Civil Law, the laws of Oleron and Wisby the works of juris-consults, the judicial decisions of our own and foreign countries, etc. though still susceptible of amendment, our system corresponds more nearly than any other system of maritime law with those universally recognised principles of justice and general convenience on which merchants and navigators should act.The decisions of Lord Mansfield did much to fix the principles and to improve and perfect the maritime law of England. It...
Salvage
Salvage, allowance or compensation made by maritime law to those by whose exertions ships or goods have been saved from the dangers of the seas, fire, pirates, or enemies.This was allowed by the laws of Rhodes, Oleron, and Wisby, and is also allowed by all modern maritime states; the person who saves goods from loss or imminent peril has a lien upon them, and may retain them till payment of salvage. In this, however, the maritime law differs from the Common Law. No doctrine similar to 'salvage' applies to things lost upon land, nor to anything except ships or goods in peril at sea, Falcke v. Scottish Imperial Insurance Co., (1886) 34 Ch D 248, per Bowen, L.J.If the salvage be performed at sea, or on land (Judic. Act, 1925, s. 22), the Court of Admiralty has jurisdiction, and fixes the sum to be paid, adjusts the proportions, and takes care of the property pending the suit; or, if necessary, directs a sale and divides the proceeds between the salvors and the proprietors. In fixing the r...
Sea laws
Sea laws, laws relating to the sea, as the laws of Oleron, etc...
Wisbuy, Ordinances of
Wisbuy, Ordinances of, a code of maritime jurisprudence compiled at Wisbuy, a town in the Isle of Gothland, principally from the laws of Oleron, in the year 1400, for the governance of the Baltic traders. See 3 Hallam's Middle Ages, c. 9, pt. 2, p. 334....
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