Treatise of the Law Relative to Merchant Ships and Seament Vol. 1 of 4: I. Of the Owners of Merchant Ships; II. Of the Persons Employed in the Navigation Thereof; III. Of the Carriage of Goods Therein; IV. Of the Wages of Merchant Seamen

Excerpt from Treatise of the Law Relative to Merchant Ships and Seament Vol. 1 of 4: I. Of the Owners of Merchant Ships; II. Of the Persons Employed in the Navigation Thereof; III. Of the Carriage of Goods Therein; IV. Of the Wages of Merchant Seamen<br><br>Rally useful as the nature of it will allow great care has been taken to avoid the use of technical phrases wherever the form and manner of legal proceedings are not the principal points of consideration. The reader who is of the profession of the law may I fear sometimes be disgusted at this and at other times censure the awkward expressions substituted for the language to which his ear is familiar. The only excuse that can be offered for the latter fault is the difficulty of expressing ideas to which.the mind is habituated many other words than those to which we are! Accustomed: a difficulty of which the con versation of all persons; who are engaged in any art or science furnishes daily experience.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.