Shipowners' limitation of liability

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Reynolds Barnabas
Group Author: Tsimplis Michael N
Published: Wolters Kluwer,
Publisher Address: Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands
Publication Dates: c2012.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Carrier Form: c, 454 p.: ill. ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 9789041124654 (hbk.)
9041124659 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Index Number: D993
CLC: D993.5
Call Number: D993.5/R462
Contents: Includes bibliographical references (p. 435-443) and index.
How limitation issues arise -- Tonnage and value based limitation systems -- Who may invoke global limitation? -- For which types of vessel is limitation available? -- The claims to which limitation may apply -- When is the right to limited liability lost? -- The limits of liability -- Multiple funds, multiplicity of defendants and counterclaims -- Constitution of the fund and priority of claims -- The admiralty jurisdiction of the English High Court and English limitation procedure -- Jurisdiction for global limitation of liability proceedings.