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ABANDONMENT,

See Marine Insurance.

ABATEMENT,

Survival of action for injuries resulting in death, 222.

ABDUCTION,

Remedies for, 216.

ACCOUNTS,

See Admiralty Jurisdiction.

ADMIRALTY JURISDICTION,

Extent of under constitution, 9.

Includes navigable waters, whether tidal or not, 10, 195.

Test of navigability, 11.

Includes canals, 13, 195.

Lakes wholly within state, 13.

Includes the simplest craft, as scows, dredges, pile drivers, etc.,

14.

Does not include floating docks permanently fixed, 14.

Nor buoys, 16.

Quære as to rafts, 17.

Test of, in contract and tort respectively, 18.

None over mere partnership, 20.

None over mortgages on ships, 21.

None over mere accounts, 21, 400.

None over preliminary contracts, 22.

Extent of, over wharfage, 22.

Extent of, over watchmen, 22.

Over contracts of seamen, 23.

Over master's claim for wages, 28.

Over claims for or against pilots, 39.

Over general average contract, 50.

Over contracts of marine insurance, 51.

Over supplies and repairs, 98.

Over bottomry, 515.

None over ship building contracts, 116, 231.

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ADMIRALTY JURISDICTION-Continued,

Over stevedore contracts, 119.

Over canal tolls, 123.

Over towage, 131.

Over salvage apportionment, 151.

Over contracts of affreightment, 156.

Over torts, 195, 234.

Petitory and possessory suits and suits for partition, 339, 516.
None over equitable titles, 400.

Courts having jurisdiction, 415.

ADMIRALTY LAW,

Origin and history, 1.

The English admiralty, 2.

Sources, 5.

Works of authority on, 7.

ADMIRALTY RULES,

Rules of practice, 511.

Fifty-ninth rule, 320, 530.
Twelfth rule, 112.

ADVANCES,

Giving insurable interest, 53.

Bottomry bond for, 94.

Priority of claims, 382.

See Bottomry and Respondentia, Supplies and Repairs.
AFFREIGHTMENT,

Defined, 154.

Distinguished from charter party, 154.
Implied condition of seaworthiness, 155.
Implied warranty against deviation, 156.
Mutual remedies of ship and cargo, 156.
Lien for freight, how enforced or lost, 156.
Entirety of affreightment contract, 158.
Freight pro rata itineris, 159.

When ship a common carrier, 160.

Bill of lading, 161.

Form of, 161.

How far negotiable, 162.

What conditions legal or illegal, 163.
Exception of perils of the sea, 165.

The Harter act of February 13, 1893, 181.

Purpose of, 180.

Applies only between vessel and shipper, 183.

Applies to domestic and foreign vessels, 187.

Liability for improper loading or delivery, but not for negli-

gent navigation, 188.

Effect of unseaworthiness under, 190.

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AFFREIGHTMENT-Continued,

Burden to prove seaworthiness, 191.

Port-holes, 191.

Validity of stipulations not mentioned in act, 193.

557

Necessity of stipulating against absolute liability for sea-

worthiness, 193.

See Charter Parties.