MARSDEN'S

COLLISIONS AT SEA.

SIXTH EDITION.

THE LAW OF

COLLISIONS AT SEA.

BY

R. G. MARSDEN,

OF THE INNER TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW.

SIXTH EDITION

BY

E. S. ROSCOE,

BARRISTER-AT-LAW,

ADMIRALTY REGISTRAR OF THE HIGH COURT,

AND

H. M. ROBERTSON,

OF LINCOLN'S INN, BARRISTER-AT-LAW.

Si navis tua impacta in meam scapham damnum mihi dederit quæsitum est
quæ actio mihi competeret.”—Dig. lib. ix., tit. ii., fr. 29, § 2.

PREFACE

TO THE SIXTH EDITION.

THERE is little change in the form of the present edition; it has, without an increase in its size, been brought up to date by the inclusion of recent cases, and in a few places the text has been remodelled. Extracts from the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, have been omitted, for it is found in practice that mere extracts from a statute of this character are apt rather to mislead than to assist. The draft International Convention as to Collisions is inserted as indicative of probable changes in the future in English law, which will, however, have to be incorporated in a statute to become binding on the Courts.

April, 1910.

E. S. R.

H. M. R.