STEVENS AND SONS, 119, CHANCERY LANE, W.C. The index Ball's Short Digest of the Common Law.-Being the Prin ciples of Torts and Contracts, chiefly founded upon the works of Addison, with Illustrative Cases, for the use of Students. By W. EDMUND BALL, LL.B., late “Holt Scholar” of Gray's Inn, Barrister-at-Law and Midland Circuit. Demy 8vo. 1880. Price lbs. cloth. Haynes' Chancery Practice. — The Practice of the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice and on Appeal therefrom. For the use of Practitioners and Students. By JOHN F. HAYNES, LL.D., Author of the “Student's Leading Cases,” &c. Demy 8vo. 1879. Price 11. 5s. cloth. “Materials for enabling the practitioner himself to obtain the information he may require are placed before him in a convenient and accessible form. The arrangement of the work appears to be good.”—Law Magazine. 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By WALTER “A treatise which occupies a unique position and which is recognised by the Bench and the profession as having paramount authority in the domain of law with which it deals.”—Law Cavanagh's Law of Money Securities.- In Three Books. I. Personal Securities. II. Securities on Property. III. Miscellaneous. With prove a Barrister-at-Law, J.P. Middlesex. Royal 12mo. 1880. Price 108. od. cloth. “We have nothing but praise for the book, which is a justices' royal road to knowledge, and ought to lead them to a more accurate acquaintance with their duties than many of them have hitherto possessed."-Solicitors' Journal. “This is altogether a capital book. Mr. Wigram is a good lawyer and a good justices’lawyer." - Law Journal. “We can thoroughly recommend the volume to magistrates.”—Law Times. Journal. know All Standard Law Works are kept in Stock, in luw calf and other bindings. EXTRACTS FROM THE MERCHANT SHIPPING ACTS, THE INTER- THE MERSEY, AND ELSEWHERE. BY REGINALD G. MARSDEN, OF THE INNER TEMPLE, ESQ., BARRISTER-AT-LAW. “Si navis tua impacta in meam scapham danınum mihi dederit quæsitum Dig. lib. ix., tit. ii., fr. 29, § 2. LONDON: 1880. PREFACE. STATISTICS issued by Lloyd's show that in the year 1878 there were in collision 1790 sailing-ships and 836 steam-ships. About 15 per cent. of the steam-ships and 3.6 per cent of the sailingships of the world (estimated as numbering respectively 5462 and 49,524) suffered loss from this one cause. Some idea of the amount of that loss may be formed from the fact that in the Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice in this country there were instituted in the year ending 31st October, 1878, actions in which sums amounting to £985,550 were claimed for damage by collision. In the same year occurred the collision between the Bywell Castle and the Princess Alice in the River Thames, in which were lost upwards of 600 lives; also that between the Grosser Kurfürst and the König Wilhelm, off Folkestone, where 281 of the crew of the former ship perished. The importance of the subject treated of in the following pages is sufficiently shown by the above facts. To seamen having the charge of ships this treatise is offered in the hope that by setting forth the exact requirements of the law it may enable them to navigate in accordance with the law, and possibly avert collision. To others interested in shipping, |