Summary

In 1599, Dutch privateer Melchior van den Kerckhoven unlawfully captured the Venetian merchantman Ponte, which resulted in extensive legal proceedings before the Supreme Court of Holland, Zeeland and West-Friesland. The Ponte case soon became the centrepiece for discussions about vicarious liability of shipowners for unlawful acts of their shipmasters, and – more importantly – about limitation of this liability to (the value of) their ship and cargo. Within these discussions, a secondary role was reserved for the case arising from the capture of the French ship Levrette by a Dutch merchantman in 1610. Based on extensive archival research, the present article offers a detailed reconstruction of the facts and proceedings of the Ponte and the Levrette case, and sets out how these cases were employed by Roman-Dutch lawyers to give shape to limited liability of shipowners for unlawful acts of their shipmaster.

中文翻译：

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庞特的俘虏：船东替代责任的发展及其在罗马-荷兰法中的局限性

概括

1599 年，荷兰私掠船商 Melchior van den Kerckhoven 非法俘虏了威尼斯商船Ponte，这导致在荷兰、泽兰和西弗里斯兰最高法院提起了广泛的法律诉讼。庞特案很快成为关于船东对其船长的非法行为的替代责任的讨论的核心，更重要的是，关于将这种责任限制在他们的船舶和货物的（价值）上。在这些讨论中，1610 年荷兰商船俘虏法国船只Levrette引起的案件被保留为次要角色。基于广泛的档案研究，本文提供了对 Ponte 的事实和程序的详细重建和Levrette案，并阐述了罗马-荷兰律师如何利用这些案件来形成船东对其船长非法行为的有限责任。