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A motorman, also known as a qualified member of the engineering department (QMED), is the seniormost rate in the engine room of a ship. The motorman performs a variety of tasks connected with the maintenance and repair of engine room, fireroom, machine shop, ice-machine room, and steering-engine room equipment. The motorman inspects equipment ...
The Moorcock (1889) 14 PD 64 is a leading English contract law case which created an important test for identifying the main terms that the law will imply in commercial, or non-consumer, agreements, especially terms that are "necessary and obvious...to give business efficacy". Terms shall not be implied merely because they appear "desirable and ...
Although most companies do seek settlements in such cases, perhaps the most famous maritime catastrophe did make it to court: After the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, Oceanic Steam Navigator ...
The seaman-plaintiff is entitled to a jury trial, a right not afforded in maritime law absent a statute authorizing it. Under the Jones Act, maritime law has a statute of limitations of three years, meaning that seamen have three years from the time the injury occurred to sue. If an injured seaman does not sue within that period, their claim ...
A 24-year-old law that’s foundational to the internet and the social media landscape that we know today will get the U.S. Supreme Court’s attention in 2023.
In United States maritime law, the Limitation of Liability Act of 1851, codified as 46 U.S.C. § 30523 since December 2022, states that the owner of a vessel may limit damage claims to the value of the vessel at the end of the voyage plus "pending freight", as long as the owner can prove it lacked knowledge of the problem beforehand.
In the earliest cases such as Pordage v Cole [8] and Thorpe v Thorpe [9] the question whether an undertaking was a condition precedent appears to have turned upon the verbal niceties of the particular phrases used in the written contract and it was not until 1773 that Lord Mansfield, in the case, which is a legal landmark, Boone v Eyre, [10 ...
The term "seaman" has been used in admiralty law for centuries. U.S. courts have continued to narrow the definition of the term and the remedies available to those with the status through their rulings over that time. The Supreme Court notably tried to summarize the remedies available to those with the status in The Osceola. [3]