A

TREATISE ON THE LAW

OF

MERCHANT SHIPPING.

A

TREATISE ON THE LAW

OF

MERCHANT SHIPPING.

BY

DAVID MACLACHLAN, M.A.,

OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW.

THIRD EDITION.

LONDON:

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1880.

AT

AL M161M 1880

JUL 14 52

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PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION.

A NEW edition of this treatise being demanded, I have again endeavoured to make it worthy of the favour bestowed upon it by the profession and the public both at home and abroad. The latest decisions and the statutes of the present year have been incorporated in the body of the work.

A decision deeply involving the shipping interest has been pronounced for the first time in the course of centuries upon the effect of the Sue and Labour Clause in the Insurance Policy of the common form. The House of Lords have held in the case of Lohre v. Aitchison that salvage is not recoverable under that clause. As that decision has been arrived at without reference to ancient usage in the language, and in contradiction to the proper sense of the terms of the Clause viewed in the light of such usage, I think I am justified in saying that the

decision cannot be sustained.

By the key to such ancient usage which I have supplied in an appendix to the Chapter on Salvage, the matter is submitted to public judgment.