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Thomas Erskine Holland: A consignment to Lorenzo Marques, connected as is the town by only forty miles of railway with the Transvaal frontier…

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A consignment to Lorenzo Marques, connected as is the town by only forty miles of railway with the Transvaal frontier, would seem to be well within the principles of the Civil War cases as to "continuous voyages.
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Thomas Erskine Holland

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Holland discusses the implications of a consignment to a location near a conflict zone in relation to maritime law.

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