People v. Marcus

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How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that a bareboat charter is “tantamount to, though just short of, an outright transfer of ownership”
• noting that a bareboat charter is “tantamount to, though just short of, an outright transfer of ownership”
• “To create a demise the owner of the vessel must completely and exclusively relinquish ‘possession, command and navigation’ thereof to the demisee.”
• a bareboat charter is “tantamount to, though just short of, an outright transfer of ownership”
• “To create a demise the owner of the vessel must completely and exclusively relinquish ‘possession, command, and navigation’ thereof to the demisee[,]” quoting United States v. Shea, 152 U.S. 178, 186, 14 S.Ct. 519, 521, 38 L.Ed. 403 (1894)
• “If we were convinced, as was the Court of Appeals, that the trial court’s action was colored by a misunderstanding of such legal principles, we would have to remand, as the Court of Appeals should have, for further findings by the trial court on the credibility of the owner’s witness.”

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