Salvage on the Sea (Inland Waters) - From Roman Law to Modern Time
Salvage on the Sea (Inland Waters) - From Roman Law to Modern Time

Author(s): Dragan Bolanča
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Maritime Law, Roman law
Published by: Правни факултет Универзитета у Источном Сарајеву
Keywords: Salvage on the sea; Roman law; Maritime law; Law of inland water navigation; Republic of Srpska; Republic of Croatia;
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 commensurate with the value of the property salved. The legal concept of an entitlement to reward for saving imperriled marine property can be traced back into antiquity for some 3.000 years. Beginning with the Edicts of Rhodes (Nomos Rhodion Nauticos), through the laws of the Romans (chapters XLV and XLVII of Book XIV of Justinian's Digest) into modern legal system, it has been recognized through the ages that an individual who risk himself and his own 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 nations 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. In this article the law solutions of Republic of Srpska and Republic of Croatia will be compared.

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