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DEAD FREIGHT

Legal Term: DEAD FREIGHT
Definition: contracts. When the charterer of a vessel has shipped part of the goods on board, and is not ready to ship the remainder, the master, unless restrained by his special contract, may take other goods on board, and the amount which is not supplied, required to complete the cargo, is called dead freight. 2. The dead freight is to be calculated according to the actual capacity of the vessel. 3 Chit. Com. Law, 399 Stark. 450.



***All definitions are taken from the 1856 Edition of Bouviers Law Dictionary

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