LODS ET VENTES. A fine payable to the seigneur upon every sale of lands within his seigniory. 1 Low. C. 50.
Any transfer of lands for a consideration gives rise to the claim; 1 Low. C. 79 ; as, the creation of a rente viagire (life-rent) ; 1 Low. C. 84; a transfer under bail emphyteo tique; 1 Low. C. 295 ; a promise to sell, ac companied by transfer of possession ; 9 Low. C. 272. It does not arise on a transfer by a father to his son subject to a payment by the son of a life-relit to the father, and of the father's debts ; 8 Low. C. 5, 34, 324 ; nor where property is required for public uses ; 1 Low. C. 91.
A ship's journal. It con tains a minute account of the ship's course, with a short history of every occurrence during the voyage. 1 Marsh. Ins. 408.
The part of the log-book relating to trans actions in the harbor is termed the harbor log; that relating to what happens at sea. the sea log. Young, Naut. Dic.
When a log-book is required by law to be kept, it is an official register so far as re gards the transactions required by law to be entered in it, but no further ; Abbott, Shipp., 13th ed. 984; Cloutman v. Tunison, 1 Sumn. 373, Fed. Cas. No. 2,907 ; Orne v. Townsend, 4 Mas. 541, Fed. Cas. No. 10,583 ; 1 Dods. 9 ; 2 Flagg. Eccl. 159 ; Douglass v. Eyre, Gilp. 147, Fed. Cas. No. 4,032.
All vessels making foreign voyages from the United States, or, of the burden of seven ty-five tons or more, from a port on the At lantic to a port on the Pacific, or vice versa, must have an official log-book ; Rev. Stat. § 4290 ; in which must be entered: Every of fence committed by a member of the crew for which it is intended to prosecute or to enforce a forfeiture ; every offence for which punishment is inflicted on board, and the punishment inflicted; a statement of the character, conduct, and qualifications of each member of the crew, or a statement that the master declines to give such particulars ; every case of illness or of injury to any member of the crew, the nature thereof, and the medical treatment ; every death on board and the cause thereof ; every birth, with the sex of the infant, and the name of the par ents ; every marriage, with the names and ages of the parties ; the name of any seaman who ceases to be a member of the crew, and the place, time, manner, and cause thereof ; a statement of the wages due any seaman or apprentice who dies during the voyage and the gross amount of all deductions to be made ; the sale of the effects of the deceased seaman, including a statement of each arti cle sold and the sum received for it. Id. §§
4290-4292. In case of collision an entry must be made in the log; Act of Feb. 14, 1900.
In suits for seamen's wages, the log-book is to be produced if required, or otherwise the plaintiff may state its contents. The neglect of a seaman to render himself on board, and his absence without leave, are also to be entered on the log-book in certain cases, or the sailor's fault will not forfeit his wages. Acts 20 July, 1790, §§ 2, 5, & 6 ; 7 June, 1872 ; 27 Feb. 1877.
In collision actions log-books are not evi dence for the ship in which they are kept, though they are against them ; L. R. 1 P. C. 378; though the master and mate were both dead; P. D. 31. "An entry made with full knowledge or opportunity of ascertain ing the truth must be accepted as the truth when it tells against the party making it, and can be denied no more than a deed" ; The Newfoundland, 176 U. S. 97, 20 Sup. Ct. 274, 44 L. Ed. 386.
It is the duty of mate to keep the log book. Dana, Seaman's Friend 145, 200.
Every entry shall be signed by the master and mate or some other one of the crew, and shall be made as soon as possible after the occurrence to which it relates. For keeping the log in an improper manner the master is punishable by fine ; U. S. Rev. Stat. §§ 4291, 4292.