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Shipowner
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Shipholder
A shipowner
Limited liability
the Companies Act, 1929 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 23). Consult Palmer; Hemmant; Lindley on Company Law. Shipowners, Canals, Docks, and Railways.--The liability of shipowners for loss or injury to goods or passengers carried in their
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Active-operations duty
Active-operations duty, in relation to Maritime Law, means a shipowner's obligation to provide safe working conditions, in the work areas controlled by the shipowner, for the Stevedore and
Ship
the bridges where the tide ebbs and flows, R. v. Anderson, LR 1 CCR 161. The liability of shipowners (who are liable at common law, if carriers, as insurers of goods) is limited by s. 503 of
Average
overboard in a storm to lighten the ship. Such loss by maritime law is shared proportionately between the shipowners and the owners of the cargo, according to value. This risk is almost always covered by insurance. An
Time Charter-party
both referred to as time-charters as distinguished from category (iii), and they have this in common that the shipowner's remuneration is reckoned by the time during which the charterer is entitled to the use of services of
Respondentia
extreme urgency, as a last resort and where communication with the owners is impossible in the circumstances. The shipowner must indemnify the owner of the cargo thus hypothecated. (to answer). A loan secured by cargo on one's
Protest
happened to the ship, or to the cargo, or other circumstances calculated to affect the liability of the shipowner or the charterer, etc. Also, an objection made to a proceeding in which the person protesting is by
Carrier
carriage by land only; as to carriage by sea, or partly by land and partly by sea, see SHIPOWNER. See Macnamara on Carriers; Chitty on Contracts; CARRIAGE BY AIR. Means a person who is engaged in the
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