A classification certificate has been held to be equipment and so a claim by a classification society for their charges in connection with issuing such a certificate. Claims under this head do not give rise to a maritime lien, but a repairer has a possessory lien at common law. A ship can...
According to leading conspiracy theorists or truth-tellers, I’ll let you judge that the term legal does not mean lawful. Common law, or the law of the land, is lawful; statute law, or maritime law, the law of the ocean, is what we call legal. The Law of the Sea/Ocean is banking...