A TREATISE ON THE LAW OF MERCHANT SHIPPING. BY DAVID MACLACHLAN, M.A., OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW. · WITH A SUPPLEMENT. LONDON: WILLIAM MAXWELL, 32, BELL YARD, LINCOLN'S INN, HODGES, SMITH & CO., DUBLIN ; BELL & BRADFUTE, EDINBURGH. 1862. THE following treatise, planned upon the order of the subject, opens with the acquisition of ship property, and those dealings with it, when acquired, which are recognised and sanctioned by law. It passes from this to the various relations of the owners in connection with such property -among themselves, with their agents, to the world at large, the mariners in particular, and generally to the owners of other ships that may be met with on the maritime highway. Thus far it comprises only those dealings and relations, legally considered, which begin and end immediately in the possession of this description of property, forming what may be regarded as the first grand division of the subject. The second division is concerned with the commercial purpose of ship-property, and all those obligations which are severally contracted by the owner and the freighter in the employment of it for that end, whether expressly stipulated between them at the first, or implied by law, from the relation thus formed, in connection with the course of 124151 b 243 |