Loans of this character have ever since been common in maritime lands, under the name of bottomry and respondentia bonds. |
This general rule of construction should especially guide a court of admiralty in interpreting a contract of bottomry and respondentia. |
They had the authority to use bottomry bonds and respondentia bonds to clear off charges against the ship. |
Would you have men oratorical over a bottomry bond, Demosthenic about an action of trespass on the case, or a rule to compute? |
I wrote a history of insurance and bottomry was one of the terms. |
Amongst these in all cases are found claims for salvage, wages, bottomry under certain restrictions, and necessaries. |