The owner of a vessel is bound to repay to the owner of its cargo all which the latter is compelled to pay in order to discharge a lien under a contract of respondentia made by the master.
Cal. Harb. & Nav. Code § 473
Respondentia
Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 368.
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