Excerpt from The Hague Rules 1921 Explained The Hague Rules, 1921, defining the risks to be assumed by sea carriers under a bill of lading, were framed by the Maritime Law Committee of the International Law Association. After consultation with representatives of the interests concerned from numerous maritime States the Rules were settled during a conference of the Association at the Hague in September, 1921. The conference approved the Rules, and recommended them for international adoption. Shipowners, shippers, consignees, bankers and underwriters, as well as lawyers, collaborated in the drafting, discussion and settlement of the Hague Rules. Indeed, the Rules are the outcome of a series of developments in which all those interests have been concerned. "There can be no doubt," observed Lloyd's List in recording the adoption of the Rules, "that, of late, the sense of dissatisfaction among shippers with the existing state of things has become more marked, and shipowners, while reluctant to abandon their position of freedom to agree terms of contract with individual merchants, have recognised that, as a matter of business, they should meet, as far as possible, the wishes of their customers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.