bare-boat charter
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 310 U.S. 268 - Dannebrog v. Signal Oil & Gas Co. · 1940Most cited · 346 citing opinions
There is a plain distinction between a case of a bare-boat charter, where the charterer mans the vessel, and a case where the charter party is a mere contract for the carriage of goods. In the former there is a clear demise; in the latter, the charterer is in substance only a shipper.
How often courts cite the case defining “bare-boat charter”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “bare-boat charter” — 345 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.