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A Treatise on the Laws of Commerce and Manufactures, and the Contracts Relating Thereto; With an Appendix of Treaties, Statutes, and Precedents
A Treatise on the Laws of Commerce and Manufactures and the Contracts Relating Thereto With an Appendix of Treaties Statutes and Precedents Author:Joseph Chitty General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1824 Original Publisher: Printed by A. Strahan, for H. Butterworth Subjects: Commercial law Contracts Forms (Law) Great Britain Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy th... more »e General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAP. V. Of Convoys. A CONVOY is a naval force appointed by government for the protection of merchant ships and others during the whole voyage, or such part of it as is thought to require such protection. The consideration of the laws of convoy, leads us to enquire, first) what vessels are obliged to sail with convoy; secondly, what is the course to be pursued by those on which this obligation is imposed, the place from which they must sail, with what vessel, how far they must proceed with convoy, with the penalties and consequences attached to sailing without convoy, or separating from it. Lastly, the duties of the officers and seamen belonging to the convoy. To avert the mischiefs that would arise to the commerce of this country, if vessels were allowed to sail without sufficient protection, acts of parliament have been frequently passed, during the existence of hostilities, to oblige ships to sail with convoy1. The last act was the stat. 43 Geo. 3. c. 57. which expired at the temrination of the late war. This statute provided that it should not be lawful for any vessel belonging to his majesty's subjects, except as therein provided, to sail or depart from any port or place whatever, unless under the convoy and protection of such ship or ships, vessel or vessels, as should or might be appointed for that purpose. Some vessels, however, were exempted by statute from the obligation to sail with convoy. In thefirst place, it did not extend to any vessel not required to be regis...« less