The Law of the Whale Hunt: Dispute Resolution, Property Law, and American Whalers, 1780-1880

ISBN-13: 9781107535169 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 191 str.

Robert Deal

Opis

The Law of the Whale Hunt provides an innovative examination of how property law was created in the absence of formal legal institutions regulating American whaling. Robert Deal tells an exciting story of how American whalers resolved complex disputes over whales instead of resorting to the courts.

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. The biology, economics, and geography of Anglo-American whaling; 3. Fast-fish, loose-fish; 4. Iron holds the whale; 5. Laws of honor; 6. Halves; 7. The environment of litigation; 8. An untragic commons; 9. Conclusion.