Lloyd's Law Reports

Professor Robert Merkin KC; Dr Johanna Hjalmarsson

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HAIN STEAMSHIP CO., LTD. v. SOCIEDAD ANONIMA COMERCIAL DE EXPORTACION E IMPORTACION (LOUIS DREYFUS & CO., LTD.).

(1934) 49 Ll L Rep 86

KING'S BENCH DIVISION.

Before Mr. Justice MacKinnon.

Charter-party - Dispatch money - Saturday afternoons-"Steamer shall be loaded at the rate of . . . tons per running day . . . Sundays and holidays excepted. . . . Time for loading shall commence to count 12 hours after written notice has been given . . ."- Meaning of "running day"-Finding of umpire that the work of loading vessels at the various loading ports on Saturdays after 1 p.m. was illegal by local law; but that notwithstanding that prohibition Saturdays should be computed as full days-Whether period after 1 p.m. on Saturdays should be excluded from the computation of "running days."

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