Violations of navigational rules and regulations through history

The paper describes violations of navigational rules and regulations in merchant marine shipping business. The rules regulating merchant marine shipping support the fact that navigation was far from safe. The law-makers classified maritime violations into three groups: violations of the ship, of the goods and of valuables (jewellery). On occasions money, jewellery, ship’s equipment or transported goods were stolen during maritime transport. Furthermore, due to the length of voyages, conflicts occurred among crewmembers, passengers, or between the crew and pirates. Similar situations are part of everyday life, too, consequently the law-makers anticipate various sanctions for damages, either in order to prevent the violators from committing various violations, or to be able to solve the consequences of the violations. The oldest codes, such as those developed by Bilalama or Hammurabi, and the Roman law contain provisions which sanction violations in merchant marine shipping. Similar regulations can be found in Rhodian Sea Law (Lex Rhodia), as well as in Croatian medieval communal statutes such as the Statute of Dubrovnik, the Statute of Zadar, the Statute of Split and the Statute of Hvar.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.17818/NM/2016/4.9
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2016 University of Dubronvnik.
• Authors:
  • Đukić, Zlatko
• Publication Date: 2016-12

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 107-115
• Serial:
  • Naše More: International Journal of Maritime Science & Technology
  • Volume: 63
  • Issue Number: 4 Supplement
  • Publisher: University of Dubrovnik
  • ISSN: 0469-6255
  • EISSN: 1848-6320
  • Serial URL: http://hrcak.srce.hr/nase-more
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: History; Marine transportation; Maritime law; Merchant marine; Regulations; Shipping
• Uncontrolled Terms: Violations
• Subject Areas: Law; Marine Transportation; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01623370
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 24 2017 3:31PM