Devolve
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
To pass from a person dying to a person living.
1 Mylne & K. 648.
See Delegation.
See Delegation.
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The contract which takes place between the owner of a ship, the captain, and the mariners, who agree that the voyage shall be for the benefit of all. The term is used in the Italian law. Targa, cc.
36, 37; Emerigon, Mar. Loans, s. 5.
The New England whalers owned and navigated were under this species of contract The captain and his mariners were all interested in the profits of the voyage in certain proportion, in the same manner as the captain and crew of a privateer, according to the agreement between them. Such agreements were very common in former times. It is necessary to know this in order to understand many of the provisions of the laws of Oleron and of Wisliuy, the Consolato del Mare, and other ancient codes of maritime and commercial law.
Hall, Mar. Loans 42.