• The law of salvage is a principle of maritime law whereby any person who helps recover another person's ship or cargo in peril at sea is entitled to a...
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  • law" for "wet law" (e.g. salvage, collisions, ship arrest, towage, liens and limitation), and use "maritime law" only for "dry law" (e.g. carriage of...
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  • In North America, a salvage title is a form of vehicle title branding, which notes that the vehicle has been damaged and/or deemed a total loss by an insurance...
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    Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict (category Admiralty law)
    meanings, with legal consequences in the law of admiralty and marine salvage. A shipwreck is defined as the remains of a ship that has been wrecked, whether...
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    accordance with Articles 13 and 14 of the International Salvage Convention of 1989. The common law concept of salvage was established by the English Admiralty...
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  • governing marine salvage. The Convention's main innovation is that the scope of salvage law has been extended to cover "environmental salvage". The 1910 Brussels...
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    strong influence on the law of shipping and maritime trade. The English law of salvage, collisions, ship arrest, and carriage of goods by sea are subject...
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    the Law of the Sea – Intergovernmental organization Law of the sea – International law concerning maritime environments Law of salvage – Principle of maritime...
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    appropriateness of applying maritime salvage law to historic wrecks such as that of Titanic" and denied the application of the Maritime Law of Finds. The court...
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  • 1910 Convention. United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea Marine salvage The Law of Salvage, Professor, jur. dr Svante O. Johansson, 2008. Ratifications...
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    admiralty law (also known as maritime law), which applies to private maritime issues, such as the carriage of goods by sea, rights of salvage, ship collisions...
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    Admiralty law also encompasses specialised issues such as salvage, maritime liens, and injuries to passengers. Intellectual property law aims at safeguarding...
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  • Salvage logging is the practice of logging trees in forest areas that have been damaged by wildfire, flood, severe wind, disease, insect infestation, or...
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  • "Logging Without Laws: The 1995 Salvage Logging Rider Radically Changes Policy and the Rule of Law in the Forests". Tulane Environmental Law Journal. 9 (2):...
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  • The Receiver of Wreck is an official who administers law dealing with maritime wrecks and salvage in some countries having a British administrative heritage...
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  • Natural law (Latin: ius naturale, lex naturalis) is a system of law based on a close observation of natural order and human nature, from which values...
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  • Lloyd's Open Form (category Marine salvage)
    When determining the salvage award, an arbitrator follows the English law of civil salvage, which is itself subject to the Salvage Convention 1989, a successor...
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    Salvage ethnography is the recording of the practices and folklore of cultures threatened with extinction, including as a result of modernization and...
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    initial salvage. Initially a privateer, Henry Jennings was first accused of piracy for attacking such salvage ships and claiming their salvages.[not verified...
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    Shipwreck (category Law of the sea)
    Scapa Flow in the 1920s and 1930s. The unauthorized salvage of wrecks is called wrecking. Shipwreck law determines important legal questions regarding wrecks...
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    archaeology, sometimes called commercial archaeology, preventive archaeology, salvage archaeology, contract archaeology, developer-funded archaeology, or compliance...
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  • administer future salvage sales. Womach, Jasper (2005-09-16). Report for Congress: Agriculture: A Glossary of Terms, Programs, and Laws, 2005 Edition (Report)...
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    The Nagasaki Spirit (category Admiralty law)
    [1997] is an English admiralty law case on marine salvage and on the provisions of Article 13 and 14 of the 1989 Salvage Convention. The case identified...
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  • John Bull (1800 ship) (category Age of Sail merchant ships of England)
    case involving the law of salvage. She returned to mercantile trading and was wrecked in 1810. John Bull entered the Register of Shipping in 1800, and...
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    when diving on a shipwreck, generally refer to the specific task, such as salvage work, accident investigation or archaeological survey. Although most wreck...
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  • Bas v. Tingy (category 1800 in United States case law)
    commander of a public armed vessel—the Ganges—which recovered the Eliza. The case hinged on a matter of the law of salvage, or marine salvage; two separate...
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  • a British privateer operating out of Jersey. Her master was plaintiff in a notable case involving the law of salvage. She returned to mercantile trading...
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    impossible. In Great Peace Shipping Ltd v Tsavliris Salvage (International) Ltd, the court held that the common law will grant relief against common mistake, if...
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    the District of Connecticut, where legal proceedings began. Lt. Thomas R. Gedney filed a libel (a lawsuit in admiralty law) for salvage rights to the...
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  • ashore due to a typhoon. The islanders claim the cargo under the law of salvage, but the powerful Nico Patrai threatens to destroy the island and its inhabitants...
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