Supercargoes and shipowners
group · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
shipowners · owner of a vessel · supercargoes
in the texts
Against Dionysodorus
Ship-officers and vessel owners bound by Athenian law to sail to their agreed destination or face severe penalties; also the men who owned portions of cargo aboard Dionysodorus's ship and shipped their own goods onward from Rhodes.
Because, men of Athens, neither the defendant nor his partner was owner of the entire cargo, but, I fancy, the supercargoes who were on board despatched their own goods hither, in other bottoms necessarily, seeing that these men had cut short the voyage before the ship reached her destination.
The outcome was that Parmeniscus, the defendant’s partner, when he had received the letter sent by him and had learned the price of grain prevailing here, discharged his cargo of grain at Rhodes and sold it there in defiance of the agreement, men of the jury, and of the penalties to which they had of their own will bound themselves, in case they should commit any breach of the agreement, and in co …
The Law of Torts
Owners of vessels used to illustrate that control need not be immediate or physical to sustain vicarious liability.
It is proper to add that the “power of controlling the work” which is the legal criterion of the relation of a master to a servant does not necessarily mean a present and physical ability.