The law with regard to the contract of affreightment is a branch of the general law of contract. The rights and obligations of the ship-owner and the freighter depend, as in the case of all parties to contracts, upon the terms of the agreement entered into between them.nder a time charter-party, the shipowner largely parts with control of his ship. The ship is employed, within certain limits, according to needs of the charterers. However, the shipowner remains in possession of the vessel via his employee, the master.
Definition of courtly love - a highly conventionalized medieval tradition of love between a knight and a married noblewoman, first developed by the troubadours
The love of the knight for his lady was regarded as an ennobling passion and the relationship was typically unconsummated. Example sentences âThe fiddle and harp were the most respectable, played by the troubadours and associated with courtly love.â âIn the âFranklin's Tale,â Geoffrey Chaucer satirically paints a picture of a marriage steeped in the tradition of courtly love.â âYet this text pre-dates the medieval poetry of courtly love by over a thousand years.â