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Admiralty And Maritime [2000] ZASCA 169

Serva Ship Limited v Discount Tonnage Limited (263/98)

Serva Ship Limited v Discount Tonnage Limited (263/98) [2000] ZASCA 169; [2000] 4 All SA 400 (A) (31 August 2000)

Court
Supreme Court of Appeal
Case number
263/98
Judges
Harms, Hefer, Grosskopf, Olivier, Melunsky

The court held that time-charter rights are incorporeal and not attachable property where the vessel happens to be, so jurisdiction was not founded.

  • Attachment To Found Jurisdiction
  • Situs Of Incorporeal Rights
  • Maritime Claims
  • Peregrini Jurisdiction
  • Admiralty-and-maritime
  • Attachment-to-found-jurisdiction
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