Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly
BAILMENT AND BAREBOAT CHARTERPARTIES
Wong Weitao*
SY Roro v Onorato
The law of bailment is ancient, and this antiquity has been observed to be one of two reasons for its relative obscurity in modern times. The other reason is the substantial overlap between the law of bailment and the laws of contract, tort and property.1 This
* Associate, Helmsman LLC; Visiting Researcher, Centre for Maritime Law, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. I wish to convey my appreciation to Professor Stephen Girvin and Wu Muyu for their feedback on a draft of this comment. All errors remain my own.
1. N Palmer (ed), Palmer on Bailment, 3rd edn (London, 2009) (hereafter “Palmer on Bailment”), [1.001].
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