Amount principle

...In the end, the prevailing view is that the basis for this lies in the historical reason that the maritime laws of various countries have recognized this since ancient times, and in the policy reason of protecting and encouraging maritime companies. There have been several legislative principles for limiting shipowners' liability, including the commission principle, execution principle, amount principle, ship's value principle, and combined principle, but since the 1957 Shipowners' Liability Convention adopted the amount principle, which had been used in British law since the Merchant Shipping Act of 1862, most shipping countries have incorporated this convention into their domestic law and adopted the amount principle. The amount principle determines the shipowner's liability for each accident and limits the amount of liability to a certain amount calculated according to the ship's tonnage. ...

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…結局，古くから各国海商法がこれを認めてきたという沿革的理由と，海上企業の保護奨励という政策的理由に，その根拠を求めるのが通説である。船主責任制限の立法主義には，委付主義，執行主義，金額主義，船価主義，併用主義などが存在したが，1957年の船主責任制限条約が，1862年の商船法以来イギリス法がとっていた金額主義を採用してから，ほとんどの海運諸国は，この条約を国内法化し金額主義をとっている。金額主義は，船主の責任を，事故ごとに定め，その責任額を，船舶のトン数に応じて算出された一定の金額に制限するものである。…

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