THE LAW OF COLLISIONS AT SEA, WITH An Appendix, CONTAINING EXTRACTS FROM THE MERCHANT SHIPPING ACTS, THE INTERNATIONAL REGULATIONS BY REGINALD G. MARSDEN, OF THE INNER TEMPLE, ESQ., BARRISTER-AT-LAW. “Si navis tua impacta in meam scapham damnum mihi dederit quæsitum Dig. lib. ix., tit. ii., fr. 29, § 2. SECOND EDITION. LONDON: Law Publishers and Booksellers. ΤΟ The Memory of THE RIGHT HON. THOMAS MILNER GIBSON THIS EDITION IS DEDICATED. "For these Rules (The Regulations for preventing Collisions at Sea) the country is greatly indebted to the exertions of Mr. MILNER GIBSON, when President of the Board of Trade, without whose practical knowledge of the subject, patience, and temper the nautical men connected with the Board of Trade and Trinity House, as well as various naval officers in office and out of doors, would never have consented to them."-Lindsay's History of Merchant Shipping, Vol. III. p. 345. PREFACE. IN the present edition there are certain alterations of arrangement and some new matter, to which it is desired to call the attention of the reader. The first Chapter of the former edition is expanded and subdivided; it is now represented by Chapters I., II., III., V. and X. In Chapter X., which deals with the rule as to division of loss, some early unreported decisions of the Admiralty Court, and of the Court of the Judges Delegates upon appeal from the Admiralty, are referred to. These cases, which are of historical interest, and may prove to be of some legal importance, it is proposed to include in a collection of early Admiralty cases now in the course of publication by the present writer. To this collection occasional reference is made in the following pages. With the exception above referred to, the arrangement of the present edition follows that of |