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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.
16 U.S.C. ch. 12H—Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning and Conservation; 16 U.S.C. ch. 13—Regulation of Transportation in Interstate or Foreign Commerce of Black Bass and Other Fish; 16 U.S.C. ch. 14—Regulation of Whaling; 16 U.S.C. ch. 14A—Whale Conservation and Protection; 16 U.S.C. ch. 15—Predatory Sea Lampreys in the Great Lakes
Public Laws [2]; Date Subject Matter Title Chapter Legal Citation (link to full text)1: February 8, 1790: Laws of the United States, giving effect to, in North Carolina. An Act for giving effect to the several acts therein mentioned, in respect to the state of North Carolina, and for other purposes.
A few volumes of the official 2012 edition of the United States Code. The United States Code (formally The Code of Laws of the United States of America) [1] is the official codification of the general and permanent federal statutes of the United States. [2]
Pages in category "1851 in American law" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C. Constitution of ...
November 16 Minnie Hauk, operatic soprano (died 1929) William Elbridge Sewell, naval officer and Governor of Guam (died 1904) December 9 – Thomas H. Paynter, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1907 to 1913 (died 1921) December 10 – Melvil Dewey, born Melville Dewey, librarian (died 1931)
The 1850–51 United States House of Representatives elections were held on various dates in various states between August 5, 1850, and November 4, 1851. Each state set its own date for its elections to the House of Representatives before the first session of the 32nd United States Congress convened on December 1, 1851.
The Indian Appropriations Act is the name of several acts passed by the United States Congress.A considerable number of acts were passed under the same name throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, but the most notable landmark acts consist of the Appropriation Bill for Indian Affairs of 1851 [1] and the 1871 Indian Appropriations Act.