Law of Tug and Tow and Offshore Contracts - 3rd Edition
CHAPTER 12
Tug and Tow and General Average
PART A. THE SPECIAL ISSUES ARISING
General average and the York-Antwerp Rules
12.1
It is beyond the scope of this book to give any account of the law and practice relating to general average. The leading general text on this subject is Lowndes and Rudolf: The Law of General Average and the York-Antwerp Rules (13th edn, 2008, Sweet & Maxwell, now edited by Julian Cooke and R.R. Cornah). A basic definition of general average can be taken as follows (see Cooke, Voyage Charters (3rd edn), para. 20.1):