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. L. T. L. T. (O. S.) M. L. C. (O. S.). M. S. A. Maritime Law Cases (New Series), by Aspinall. Browning and Lushington'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 (Old Series). 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.. T. L. R. W. R. W. Rob. Moore's Privy Council Cases. Statute Law Revision Act. Statutory Rules and Orders. Swabey's Admiralty 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 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 Page 289. To notes under sect. 496 of M. S. A., 1894, add, “legal Before the opening words of this section insert the numeral Page 762. Add, "1907. No. 683.-20th August, 1907.-The Rules 624." three Pages 871, 872. To Index, "Rules and Regulations," under "I.,” add, 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 |