Maritime...Or Not?
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Maritime...Or Not?
Here is a multiple choice question: which of the following contracts is considered to be a "maritime contract" under U.S. law? (a) a shipbuilding contract, (b) a ship-sale contract, (c) a ship-repair contract, and/or (d) a ship mortgage. You will be forgiven if you simply tried to apply logic in answering this question and guessed that all four are maritime contracts. (View PDF to read the rest of this article)
This article by Thomas H. Belknap, Jr., partner at Blank Rome, is one in a series of articles written for Blank Rome Maritime's quarterly Mainbrace newsletter. To view the other articles in the July 2012 edition of Mainbrace, please click here.