A Treatise On The Subject Of Collisions Between Warships And Merchant Vessels According To English Law

Author : N. Matsunami
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ISBN 13 : 9781330885185
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (851 download)

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Download or read book A Treatise on the Subject of Collisions Between Warships and Merchant Vessels written by N. Matsunami and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Treatise on the Subject of Collisions Between Warships and Merchant Vessels: According to Humble Contribution as Unification of the Laws on the Subject Among the Maritime Nations of the World On the third day of the meeting of the International Maritime Law Conference in the month of July, 1899, in the Fishmonger's Hall, London, the author of this book proposed the following resolution: - "In the case of collision between a warship and a merchant vessel, the International Maritime Committee hopes the State to which the warship belongs will pay the damages according to the general principle of the Maritime Law." Although the proposal may seem somewhat audacious, practically meaning, as it did, changing the law of the whole maritime world on the subject, it was not, nevertheless, advanced without preparation. Since the collision, in the year 1892, between the Imperial Japanese cruiser "Chishima" and a P. & O. steamer, "Ravenna," in which the former sank with more than seventy officers and seamen, the author devoted special attention to this particular subject. He made a study of that case, in his capacity of a legal adviser to the Japanese Admiralty, and he has since examined many similar cases which have come before the European courts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.