 | Wendell Phillips - Insurance law - 1823 - 572 pages
...stranger to the cargo beyond the purposes of safe custody and conveyance, yet in cases of instant, and unforeseen, and unprovided necessity, the character of agent and supercargo is forced upon him by the general policy of the law ; unless the law can be supposed to mean that valuable property... | |
 | Average (Maritime law) - 1833 - 520 pages
...enable the ship to prose- 1 ^ Stark, cute the voyage. It was contended in the former case, that p' I"' the master had no right to hypothecate the cargo for...unforeseen, and unprovided necessity, the character (ifLagent and supercargoes forced upon the V master.' And to show his full and complete control over... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Edward Hyde East - Law reports, digests, etc - 1845 - 586 pages
...safe custody and conveyance ; and yet, said the same learned Judge, in cases of instant, unforseen, and unprovided necessity, the character of agent and supercargo is forced upon him, not by the appointment of the owner, but by the general policy of the law, to protect the property.... | |
 | William Tarn Pritchard - Admiralty - 1847 - 808 pages
...master is a stranger to the cargo beyond the purposes of safe custody and conveyance, yet in cases of instant, unforeseen, and unprovided necessity the character of agent and supercargo is forced upon him, by the general policy of the law, as well at sea as in intermediate ports. T/x GratUudine, Mazzola,... | |
 | Asa Kinne - Courts - 1852 - 736 pages
...stranger to the cargo, beyond the purposes of safe custody and conveyance, still, in cases of instant, and unforeseen, and unprovided necessity, the character of agent and supercargo is forced upon him by the general policy of the law, as well at sea as in intermediate ports ; nnder which circumstances,... | |
 | Henry Flanders - Maritime law - 1853 - 584 pages
...contiguous port, which he is able to hire. In a case of necessity, instant, unforeseen, and unprovided for, the character of agent and supercargo is forced upon the master, and in that capacity he is bound to act for the best interest of all concerned. If, in the execution of... | |
 | Maurice Charles Merttins Swabey, Great Britain. High Court of Admiralty - Admiralty - 1860 - 588 pages
...(g) 3 CR 240. beyond the purposes of safe custody and conveyance, yet, in cases 1 859. of instant and unforeseen and unprovided necessity, the character " of agent and supercargo is forced upon him, not by the immediate act and appointment of the owner, but by the general policy of the law, unless... | |
 | Owen Davies Tudor - Commercial law - 1860 - 934 pages
...stranger to the cargo, beyond the purposes of safe custody and conveyance, yet in cases of instant and unforeseen and unprovided necessity, the character of agent and supercargo is forced upon him, not by the immediate act and appointment of the owner, but by the general policy of the law ;... | |
 | David Maclachlan - Maritime law - 1876 - 1114 pages
...things he is a stranger to it beyond the purposes of safe custody and conveyance. In cases, however, of instant, unforeseen and unprovided necessity, the character of agent and supercargo is forced upon him by the general policy of the law, and the exercise by him, as well at sea as in intermediate ports,... | |
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I think, not tenable, to the extent in which it has been thrown out ; for though, in the ordinary state of things, he is a stranger to the cargo, beyond the purposes of safe custody and conveyance, yet, in cases of instant and unforeseen and unprovided... 
