NO CURE, NO PAY

By SovConn | May 24, 2013

no cure, no pay.Maritime law. The common-law principle that compensation for salvage must come from the material salvaged, and that if no material is salvaged there can be no compensation.

• By contrast, civil-law tradition awards compensation even for a failed effort. Cf. ASSISTANCE.

[Blacks Law 8th]

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