Lloyd's Law Reports

Professor Robert Merkin KC; Dr Johanna Hjalmarsson

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THE "JUPITER."

(1927) 27 Ll.L.Rep. 1

ADMIRALTY DIVISION.

Before Mr. Justice Hill.

Ship-Possession-Title-Vessel originally the property of Russian steamship company, later vested in administrators appointed by French Court to preserve possession for true owners, handed over by captain to Russian Soviet representatives and then sold by them to defendants - Position of captain as bailee and as custodian considered - Right to sue-Declaration of ownership by foreign sovereign state - Effect of Soviet decrees on title of administrators -Onus of proof.

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