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The Immunity of Government-Owned Merchant Vessels

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2017

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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1945

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References

1 This Journal, Vol. 39 (1945), p. 585.

2 Berizzi Bros. Co. v. S. S. Pesaro, 271 U. 8. 562.

3 For critical comment, see 1 St. John's L. R., p. 5; 40 Harvard L. R., p. 126: this Jourbnal, Vol. 20 (1926), p. 759, at p. 766.

4 Below, p. 839.

5 1 St. John's L. R. at pp. 14-15.

6 Ibid., pp. 18-27.

7 Indeed under English law such vessels are liable for their maritime torts; 1 St. John's L. R., p. 17, n. 25.

8 If there is negligent navigation by such vessels we will press an American citizen's damage claims: 6 Moore, Digest of International Law, pp. 679, 757.