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TRANSHIPMENT,

Legal Term: TRANSHIPMENT,
Definition: mar. law. The act of taking the cargo out of one ship and loading it in another.

2. When this is done from necessity, it does not affect the liability of an insurer on the goods. 1 Marsh. Ins. 166; Abbott on Shipp. 240. But when the master tranships goods without necessity, he is answerable for the loss of them by capture by public enemies. 1 Gallis. R. 443.



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

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