SALVAGE AT SEA – FROM ROMAN LAW TO MODERN TIME
SALVAGE AT SEA – FROM ROMAN LAW TO MODERN TIME

Summary/Abstract: The law of salvage is a principle of maritime law whereby any person who helps recover another person's ship or cargo in peril at sea is entitled to a reward com-mensurate with the value of the property salved. The legal concept of an entitle-ment to reward for saving imperiled marine property can be traced back into an-tiquity for some 3 000 years. Beginning with the Edicts of Rhodes (Nomos Rhodion Nauticos), through the laws of the Romans into modern legal system, it has been recognised through the ages that an individual who risk himself and his own property voluntarily to successfully rescue to property of another from peril at sea should be rewarded by the owner of the property saved. Today, salvage law is relatively international and uniform, because many of the world's maritime na-tions have adopted the text of the International Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to Assistance and Salvage at Sea (signed in Brussels in 1910) or International Convention on Salvage (signed in London in 1989) which is based on the same general principles as the 1910 Convention.

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