CHARTER-PARTY

A contract by which an entire ship, or some principal part I thereof, is let ro a merchant for the convey a.nce of goods on a determined voyage to one or more places. The Harvey and Henry, 86 Fed. 656, 30 C. 0. A. 330; The New York (D. C.) 93 Fed. 497; Van dewater v. The Yankee Blade, 28 Fed. Cas. 980; •Spring v. Gray, 6 U Pet. 151, 8 L. Ed. 352; Fish v. Sullivan, 40 Ill [s. 199]