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bareboat charter

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 373 U.S. 410 - Reed v. Steamship Yaka · 1963Most cited · 1,179 citing opinions

Under such arrangements full possession and control of the vessel are delivered up to the charterer for a period of time. The ship is then directed by its Master and manned by his crew; it makes his voyages and carries the cargo he chooses.

How often courts cite the case defining “bareboat charter”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “bareboat charter” — 1,176 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.