Ralli v. Troop
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. This was a libel in admiralty, filed May 16, 1889, in the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York, by the charterers against the owners of the British bark J. AV.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. This was a libel in admiralty, filed May 16, 1889, in the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York, by the charterers against the owners of the British bark J. AV. Parker, of St. John, New Brunswick, alleging that pursuant to a charter-party, dated October 25, 1885, the libellants on February 16, 1886, loaded on the bark in the port of Calcutta, to be carried to the port of New York, at a certain rate of freight, a full cargo, consisting, among other things, of 7592 bales…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gray
The law of general average, coming down to us from remote antiquity, is derived from the law of Rhodes, through the law of Rome, and is part of the maritime law, or law of the sea, as distinguished from the municipal law, or law of the land.
The typical case is that mentioned in the Rhodian law preserved in the Pandects of Justinian, by which, if a jettison of goods is made in order to lighten a ship, what is given for the benefit of all is to be made good by the contribution of all. Cavetur ut, si levandce navis gratia jactus mercium f actus est, omnium contributione sarciatur', guod pro…
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