Exercitor Navis
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat. In the civil law. The employer of a vessel; the person who sent a vessel to sea at his own risk, and received all her earnings; {ad quern quotidianus navis qucestus pertinet; ad quern obventiones et reditus omnes perveniunt.) Inst, 4.
5. 3, Id. 4. 7. 2. Dig. 14. 1. 1. 15. 3 Kent's Com. 161, note (b). Molloy De Jur. Mar. 243. Story on Agency, §§86, 817.
The exercitor was bound for the acts of the master ex contractu, and ex delicto.
Voet. Com, ad Pand, 14. 1. 7.
S JSTent's Com. nb.
9up. Story on Agency, § 163.