PREFACE. This little work does not aspire to compete with any of the learned treatises on the law of shipping, but merely to supply a want felt by many, of a plain and concise summary of the principal practical points relating to the Inland and Sea-coast shipping of Canada and the United States, supported by references to the leading and latest authorities. I have endeavored to collocate all the points of any importance to the subjects which have hitherto been scattered through many books. Besides the reports, I have carefully examined, amongst others, the following leading works on the law of shipping, viz., McLachlan on Shipping, Abbott on Shipping, Kay on Masters and Seamen, Foard's Law of Mercantile Shipping, Holt's Rule of the Road, Smith's Mercantile Law, &c., and this work is mainly a compilation from such authorities so as to be easy of reference. I believe the work will be an accurate exposition of the Maritime Law applicable to the Inland and Sea-coast waters of Canada and the United States. I have not found the task an easy one, but I have not spared either labor or care in my efforts to execute it, and if it shall be found by experience that I have so far succeeded as to have acted the part of a pioneer only upon a hitherto imperfectly explored subject, I will be amply repaid for my time and trouble. I have to thank for invaluable assistance in my work, William Smith, Esquire, Deputy Minister of Marine for Canada, and Charles Seager, Esquire, of Osgoode Hall, Barrister-at-Law, 'who kindly perused the work previous to its going to press. E. N. L. CONTENTS. CASES CITED. Allan et al v. Chisholm, 18, 60. Allan v. Griffer, 113. Alsager v. The St. K. Dock Co., 36, 61. Alston v. Herring, 34, 37. American Ins. Co. v. Ogden, 166. Anderson v. Clark, 18. Anderson v. Hillies, 62. Andrew v. Moorhouse, 59, 61. Anglo African Co. v. Lamzed, 34, 73. Anglo Egyptian Nav. Co. v. Rennie, Baker v. Gray, 168. Barker v. Hodgson, 35, 45, 47, 59, 95, Barker v. Torrance et al, 95. Barret v. Dutton, 94, 95. Barrick v. Buba, 35, 37. Barrow v. Coles, 112. Bastifal v. Lloyd, 95. Bell v. Humphries, 174. Bell v. Jutting, 166. Bell v. Kymer, 60. Bell v. Puller, 47. Belshaw v. Bush, 72. Bennett v. P. & O. Steamboat Co., 17. Benson v. Duncan, 106. Benson v. Schnider, 12, 58. Beresford v. Montgomerie, 36. Bergstrom v. Mills, 47. Bernal v. Pini, 36, 61. Berndston v. Strong, 112, 113. Ashley v. Atkinson v. Bell, 168. Atkinson v. Cotesworth, 60. Best v. Sanders, 96. |