Volume Eleven - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - some more aspects - The Case of Price vs Livingstone at the Court of Appeal - 1882 . . .

Ship - Charter -party - Final sailing - Last port.

A charter-party provided that the owners of a vessel should receive an advance of one-third of the freight within eight days " from final sailing of the vessel from her last port in United Kingdom."

The vessel was loaded at Penarth Dock, and was towed by a steam tug seven or eight miles into the Bristol Channel. The weather being threatening, she was there anchored, until the violence of the wind caused her cables to part, and she ran ashore. Part of the cargo was thrown overboard, and the remainder was damaged by the sea water.

The vessel had never left the port of Cardiff, as defined in the Gazette for fiscal purposes, although, taking the port in its ordinary commercial sense, she had done so and had been out at sea.

(a) Reported by W. C. Biss, Esq., Barrister-at-Law.