Consular Authority Over Seamen from the United States Point of View

For an early writer's views, see Savigny, Friedrich Carl von, Private International Law, and the Retrospeetive Operation 0/ Statutes. A Treatise on the Con/liet 0/ Laws, and the Limits 0/ their Operation in Respeet 0/ Plaee and Time (Wm. Guthrie, trans., T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh 1880), pp. 59, 69, 70. Savigny's thesis was that application of conflict of laws rules to produce equivalent results regardless of forum would encourage the flow of commerce. 13 (London 1916), p. II3. Front Matter....Pages i-vi Introduction....Pages 1-9 History of the Jurisdiction of the Consular Officer....Pages 10-62 Seamen over whom Consular Officers have Authority....Pages 63-94 General Jurisdictional Problems....Pages 95-128 Consular Authority Specifically Defined....Pages 129-210 Back Matter....Pages 211-227