Carver on bills of lading
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Carver on bills of lading
（British shipping laws）
Sweet & Maxwell, 2001
1st ed
Available at 15 libraries
Note
"This book owes its origin, and its title, to a project envisaged ... to produce a new edition of the entirety of Carver's carriage by sea"--Preface
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Carver has long been the classic and definitive treatise on carriage of goods by sea. This volume focuses specifically on bills of lading, updating, expanding and substantially rewriting all relevant parts of the 13th edition of Carver: Carriage by Sea. * A definitive text on the law relating to bills of lading * Includes exhaustive discussion of the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1992 which has revolutionised important parts of the law in this area * Assesses the many problems relating to carriage by sea arising from the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 * Covers important developments in the impact of bills of lading contracts on third parties, both at common law and under the 1999 Act
Table of Contents
Nature of bills of lading. Bills of lading as a receipt. Bills of lading as contractual documents. Parties to the bill of lading contract. Contractual effects of transfer of bill of lading. Bills of lading as documents of title. Possible effects of bills of lading on third parties. Other documents. Hague and Hague-Visby Rules.
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