TABLE OF CONTENTS
Select Bibliography and Abbreviations
Table of Cases
Table of Statutes
Chapters
- Application of the rules generally
- Application of the rules to charterparties
- Interpretation and construction of the rules
- Interpretation of bills of landing and superseding clauses
- Fundamental breach, deviation, quasideviation, and rupture of the contract
- The burden and order of proof
- Sales of goods – The passing of title and risk – A resume
- Who may claim or sue?
- Proving the contract or tort
- Whom to sue
- Loss while in the charge of the carrier
- Loss or damage to cargo
- Measure of damages
- The cause of the loss or damage
- Due diligence to make the vessel seaworthy
- Error in navigation or management
- Fire
- Peril of the sea and similar exceptions
- Acts and fault of the shipper
- Inherent vice and hidden defect of the goods
- Insufficiency of packing
- Latent defects of the ship
- Art. 4(2)(q) – Any other cause without fault
- Load properly and carefully
- Stow properly and carefully
- Properly carry, keep and care for cargo
- Discharge properly and carefully
- Arbitration clauses
- Collision and loss to cargo
- Containers
- Deck carriage
- Delay for suit
- Responsibility of freight forwarders
- Cargo owner’s obligations in general average
- Geographic deviation
- The Himalaya Clause – Heresy or genius?
- Jurisdiction Clauses – Forum non conveniens
- Letters of indemnity and of guarantee
- Limitation, non-responsibility and disclaimerclauses
- Notice of loss
- Package or kilo limitation
- Set-off, recoupment, “compensation” and counterclaim
- Sweat damage and ventilation
- Through and combined carriage and transhipment
- Waybills
- Product liability
- Summaries
International Conventions
United States Law
United Kingdom Law
Canadian Law
Beaufort Wind Scale
Index