The Okehampton

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1913
Year1913
CourtCourt of Appeal
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16 cases
  • Ship Starsin, Re, (2003) 307 N.R. 100 (HL)
    • Canada
    • 13 Marzo 2003
    ...43 Ll. L.R. 359, refd to. [para. 12]. Chandris v. Isbrandtsen-Moller Co., [1951] 1 K.B. 240, refd to. [para. 12]. Ship Okehampton, Re, [1913] P. 173, refd to. [paras. 12, 71, Vallejo v. Wheeler (1774), 1 Cowp. 143; 98 E.R. 1012, refd to. [para. 13]. Ship Berkshire, Re, [1974] 1 Lloyd's Rep.......
  • East West Corporation v DKBS 1912 (East West Corporation v Dampskibsselskabet AF 1912 A/S)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 12 Febrero 2003
    ...and should be permitted to seek to, establish such a right for the first time on appeal. The authority cited included The Okehampton [1913] P.173, where the plaintiff sub-charterers of the Okehampton had issued bills of lading in their own name. They sought to recover their loss of freight......
  • Transcontainer Express Ltd v Custodian Security Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 19 Octubre 1987
    ...described it in the course of argument as a rule of law unchallenged since 1796 and submitted that it was approved in The Okehampton case (1913) P. 173. In that case the plaintiffs, Robert MacAndrew & Co., were sub-charterers of a ship. It sank with its cargo after collision with the defen......
  • Homburg Houtimport BV v Agrosin Private Ltd (Starsin)
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 17 Marzo 2003
    ...of businessmen. If an obviously inappropriate form is used, its language must be adapted to apply to the particular case: The Okehampton [1913] P 173 at 180, per Hamilton LJ. 13 Fourthly, "In all mercantile transactions the great object should be certainty: and therefore, it is of more cons......
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1 books & journal articles
  • UNRAVELLING THE IDENTITY OF THE CARRIER
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1994, December 1994
    • 1 Diciembre 1994
    ...the words “agents for the Master”. See the later discussion of the case in the text. 39 [1991] 2 Lloyd’s Rep. 325. 40 Ibid., at 332. 41 [1913] P. 173. 42 In “The Okehampton”, it was determined that the charterers had arranged for the shipment, loading and discharge for the goods and that th......

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