Logs

The stems or trunks of trees cut Into convenient lengths for the purpose of being afterwards manufactured into lumber of various kinds. Kollock v. Parcher, 62 Wis. 398, 9 N. W. 67. When logs are driven in a navigable stream in an ordinarily skillful and prudent manner, the owner is not liable for damages sustained by a riparian owner; Field v. Log Driving Co., 67 Wis. 569, 31 N. W. 17. Such logs floating down a stream may be moored to the shore for a reasonable length of time for the purpose of making them into rafts, or for breaking up the rafts, or to enable the owner to sell them; Hayward V. Knapp, 23 Minn. 430. But they may not be so stored as to prevent another from entering with a drive of logs from- a tributary; Mc Pheters v. Log Driving Co., 78 Me. 329, 5 Atl. 270; nor may they be run upon adjacent lands or cause water to overflow, to the Injury of the riparian proprietor; Haines v. Welch, 14 Or. 319, 12 Pac. 502; Lllley V. Fletcher, 81 Ala. 234, 1 South. 273; or obstruct a landing place on a navigable river; French v. Lumlier Co., 145 Mass. 261, 14 N. E. 113; and wdiere a boom obstructs navigation or interferes with the use of a dock built in aid of navigation it is a nuisance; Union Mill Co. v. Shores, 66 Wis. 476, 29 N. W. 243. A state may require all logs running out of a boom to be inspected and scaled; Lindsay & Phelps Co. v. Mullen, 176 U. S. 126, 20 Sup. Ct. 325, 44 L. Ed. 400. Boom companies are not insurers of the logs collected by their booms, nor are they liable for logs which escape by Inevitable accident; Brown v. Boom Co., 109 Pa. 57, 1 Atl. 156, 58 Am. Rep. 708; except where they fail to exercise due care; Holway v. Machias Boom, 90 Me. 125, 37 Atl. 882. Where logs drift from a raft broken by a storm without fault of the owner, he is not obliged to re-capture and remove them, when by so doing he must resort to extraordinary methods and unreasonable expense, in order to escape liability caused by a subsequent storm, although he has not abandoned them; New Orleans & N. B. R. Co. v. Mc Ewen & Murray, 49 La. Ann. 1184, 22 South. 675, 38

Stems or trunks of trees cut into convenient lengths for the purpose of being afterwards manufactured into lumber of various kinds; not including manufactured lumber of any sort, nor timber which is squared or otherwise shaped for use without further change in form. 62 Wis, 398, 9 N. W. Rep. 67.

The stems or trunks of trees cut into convenient lengths for the purpose of being afterward manufactured into lumber of various kinds. So held in a statute creating a lien in favor of persons who furnish supplies to men pngaged in taking logs out of the forest.* A person using a public stream by floating logs is not responsible at common law to a riparian proprietor for damages occasioned by the stranding of logs upon his land, if the driver has used reasonable effort to retain the logs within the stream." LONDON". See Custom; Feme Sole; Fleet; Gazette; Rack.

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.