LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS, &c.

The following abbreviations, among others, are used in the Notes:

Asp. M. L. C.

B. & L.

C. Rob.

E. R.

F.

J. A.
J. I. A.

L. T.

L. T. (O. S.)
Lush.

M. L. C. (O. S.).
M. S.

M. S. A.

Maritime Law Cases (New Series), by Aspinall.

Browning and Lushington's Admiralty Reports.
C. Robinson's Admiralty Reports.

English Reports.

Fraser's Scottish Reports.

.Supreme Court of Judicature Act, 1873, ss. 2, 16.

Supreme Court of Judicature Act (Ireland), 1877, s. 9.
Law Times Reports (New Series).

Law Times Reports (Old Series).
Lushington's Admiralty Reports.
Maritime Law Cases (Old Series).
Merchant Shipping.

Merchant Shipping Act or Acts.

1854, or M. S. A. 1854... Merchant Shipping Act, 1854.

1862, or M. S. A. 1862...Merchant Shipping Act, 1862.

1883, or M. S. A. 1883...Merchant Shipping (Fishing Boats) Act, 1883.

Moo. P. C....

S. L. R. Act

Sc. L. R.

St. R. & O..
Swa...

T. L. R.

W. R.

W. Rob.

Moore's Privy Council Cases.

Statute Law Revision Act.
Scottish Law Reporter.

Statutory Rules and Orders.

Swabey's Admiralty Reports.
Times Law Reports.

Weekly Reporter.

W. Robinson's Admiralty Reports.

NOTE.

The reference contained in square brackets, thus :-[1854, ss. 66, 67], in the margin of each section of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, is to the provisions of the former Acts which that section re-enacts, supersedes, or is based upon.

All other marginal notes to sections, as well as the headings of groups of sections, and of the Parts of the Acts, are reprinted verbatim from the King's Printers' copies of the Acts.

ADDENDA, &c.

Page 20. To notes under s. 33 of M. S. A., 1894, add, "The principle of
Black v. Williams was applied in Barclay v. Poole, cited in
Addendum to notes under s. 56."

Page 33. To notes under s. 56 of M. S. A., 1894, add, "As the section enables a registered owner, not only absolutely to dispose' of shares, but also to give effectual receipts' for the purchase money, it enables him to enter into a valid contract as to the application of the purchase money, and therefore the purchasers' right under such a contract to apply part of the purchase money in discharge of the vendor's debt to the ship, a right in which the purchasers, being already partowners, were pecuniarily interested, took precedence over a prior unregistered mortgage. Barclay v. Poole, [1907] 2 Ch. 284."

Page 34. To notes under s. 57 of M. S. A., 1894, add, "See also Barclay
v. Poole, cited in Addendum to notes under s. 56.”
Page 44.
To notes under s. 78 of M. S. A., 1894, add, This section
is amended by the Merchant Shipping Act, 1907, q.v. ante,
p. xcv."

Page 289. To notes under sect. 496 of M. S. A., 1894, add, “legal
proceedings': An application by defendants, holders of bills
of lading, to stay an action by the shipowners on the ground
that the charter-party contained an agreement of reference,
was dismissed in Runciman v. Smyth (1904), 20 T. L. R. 625.'
Page 474. To notes under s. 10 of M. S. A., 1906, add, "For the
regulations made under this section, see Appendix, post,
p. 761."

Before the opening words of this section insert the numeral
"(1)" indicating the sub-section.

Page 762. Add, "1907. No. 683.-20th August, 1907.-The Rules
relating to the loading of timber made by the Board of Trade
by minute dated February 7th, 1907, under sect. 10 of the
Merchant Shipping Act, 1906, are hereby amended, by the
substitution of the words four feet' for the words
feet' in Clause 1 of Rule III.-D. Lloyd George."
Page 804. To Index, "Emigrant ship," "provisions," add, "scale of,

624."

three

Pages 871, 872. To Index, "Rules and Regulations," under "I.,” add,
"As to registry at foreign ports, 49, 547"; "Emigrant ship,
health, &c., 189, 640"; "Emigrant ship, medical practi-
tioner on, 189, 640"; and delete same from under "II. Rules
and Regulations not set out in Schedules or Appendix."
To Index, "Rules and Regulations I. &c. " add, "carriage of
wood as deck cargo, 761."

The following is the text of the

MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT, 1907.

(7 Edw. 7, c. 52.)

An Act to amend section seventy-eight of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, with respect to the deduction of the space occupied by propelling power in ascertaining the tonnage of a ship.

Be it enacted, &c.

[28th August, 1907.]

1. The deduction under section seventy-eight of the Merchant Shipping Restriction on Act, 1894 (in this Act referred to as "the principal Act"), for the space deduction for