...master of any unexcmptcd ship navigating within any such district without a qualified pilot. s. 388. " No owner or master of any ship shall be answerable...the employment of such pilot is compulsory by law." i866 the local act, coupled with s. 89 of 6 Geo. 4, c. 125 ; aud it is this point that the case of...

...an act of the Legislature of Canada, (27-28 Vic., c. 13., s. 14.) adopting the provision contained in the Merchant Shipping Act, '' No owner or master...qualified pilot acting in charge of such ship, within any place where the employment of such pilot is compulsory by law." An act of the same Legislature, passed...

...the. cargoes of venue!*. — CSLC c. 60. e. 2. [UI. 311.] 2432. The owner or master is not liable for loss or damage occasioned by the fault or incapacity of any qualified pilot, acting in charge of the ship within any district where the employment of gnch pilot is compulsory by law. — IS 17 & 18...

...referred to the statute. 7. Exemption of Owners and Masters from Liability in case of Loss or Damage. " No owner or master of any ship shall be answerable to any person (y) The Wetley, Lush. Ad. 268. (f) Sect 380. (z) The Temora, Lush. Ad. 17. (e) Sects. 381, 383. (a)...

...compulsory upon them to employ a qualified pilot ; and the latter one, in sect. 388, expressly enacts " that no owner or master of any ship shall be answerable...the employment of such pilot is compulsory by law." Now, it has been considerately said that this statute should not be extended past its strict construction...

...getting on board, or not giving to the pilot the charge of piloting the ship. St ction 388:—" Xo owner or master of any ship shall be answerable to...the employment of such pilot is compulsory by law." With respect to exemption from compulsory pilotage:— Section 379 enacts that " the following ships,...

...Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, enacts that, no owner or master of any ship shall be answerable for any damage occasioned by the fault or incapacity of any...where the employment of such pilot is compulsory. Section 96 of the Thames Conservancy Act, 1857, enacts that the owner of every vessel navigating the...

...provision of the 388th section of the Act, by which the owners of a ship are exonerated from liability by the fault or incapacity of any qualified pilot acting in charge of the ship. It never could, in their Lordships' estimation, have been the intention of the legislature...

...country the question does not seem to be fully determined. 1 The Merchants'Shipping Act 2 provides that, "No owner or master of any ship shall be answerable...the employment of such pilot is compulsory by law." It has been held that this act should be construed strictly as it deprives parties injured of a remedy...

...or from such ports.'' The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, 17 & 18 Viet. c. 104., enacts, by sect. 388, "no owner or master of any ship shall be answerable...where the employment of such pilot is compulsory by hiw;" and by sect. 353 " the employment of pilots shall continue to be compulsory in all districts...