Logs
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
In some cases, the word logs might be held to include masts or spars. But where a contract was made to sell certain logs, the contract being based on the scale of B, and his scale bill being incorporated in the contract, it was held that a mast included in such scale-bill did not pass.
Haynes v. Hayward, 40 Me. 145.
LOG-BOOK; or LOG. The maritime name of a journal usually kept by the officers of a vessel, in which all important matters occurring during the voyage, the course of winds, the character of weather, the distance made from day to day, the behavior of the crew, their offences, illnesses, deaths, &c., are recorded. By the U. S. Rev. Stat. § 4290, every vessel making voyages from a port in the United States to a foreign port, or being of the burden of seventy-five tons or upwards, between Atlantic and Pacific ports, shall have an official log-book. And in this book must be entered various matters occurring dming a voyage, such injury, or death, of birth or marriage, of discharge of seaman, &c. The record thus made becomes evidence in various suits involving rights of seamen. An ofl Scial log-book is required by law to be kept in every ship (except those employed exclusively in the coasting trade of the United Kingdom), in a form sanctioned by the board of trade, either in connection with, or distinct from, the ordinary logbooks. Every entry in every official log must be made as soon as possible after the occurrence to which it relates. Among the occurrences which must be entered are offences committed by any of the crew, and punishments inflicted for the same; also, every case of illness or injury happening to any member of the crew; every death happening on board, and the cause thereof; every birth happening on board; every marriage taking place on board, with the names and ages of the parties. Mozley & W. That part of the log-book relating to transactions while the ship is in harbor is termed the harbor-log; and that part relating to what happens while the ship is at sea, is termed the sea-log. Young's Naut. Diet.