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MARITIME LAW (2nd Edition). Geoffrey Brice, Q.C. Sweet & Maxwell, London (1993) lxvii and 577 pp., plus 537 pp. Appendices and 25 pp. Index. Hardback £225.
For much of this century the law of salvage seems to have been in something of a backwater. The main principles, broadly expressed in the Brussels Salvage Convention of 1910, were laid down in the English Admiralty Court in the 19th century, at the end of which the
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