[sci.military] Marine law reference

pjs@euclid.jpl.nasa.gov (Peter Scott) (10/20/90)

From: pjs@euclid.jpl.nasa.gov (Peter Scott)
Could someone point me towards a reference work for marine law
that would answer questions such as the following (pertains to
a writing project of mine):

How does the scope of authority of the captain of a naval vessel
change around the time the vessel is being commissioned?  Yes, this
is a very open-ended question; I'm interested in exploring the
boundary conditions governing the authority of the ship's captain
around the beginning of its existence.


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