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- Title: Mauran v. Insurance Company
- Author : United States Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 01, 1867
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 66 KB
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Mr. Cushing (who submitted with his own, a learned brief of Messrs. R. H. Dana, Jr., and Horace Gray, Jr., in the case of another vessel before the Supreme Court of Maine), for the plaintiff in error: If this loss was by 'assailing thieves' or 'pirates,' then the insurers are bound to pay; for undoubtedly a taking by assailing thieves or pirates does not operate to make in law a 'capture.' Rovers, thieves and pirates have always been treated as ordinary perils of the sea. Chancellor Kent1 lays down the distinction in explicit terms: