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This is a sentence from the York Antwerp Rules 2016, maritime rules for general average.
I'm completely at a loss as to how I should understand 'shall have entered a port'.
Does this refer to the past, as in 'could have entered a port', or the future, as in 'will have finished school'?
Is it simply a lawyer's way of saying 'When a ship has entered a port or place of refuge'? Or rather, it carries a meaning that the latter structure can't express.
I'd like to hear your opinions.
Richard
When a ship shall have entered a port or place of refuge, or shall have returned to her port of place of loading ... .
Rule X, Paragraph a, Subparagraph i
https://comitemaritime.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/YAR-2016-English-with-Rule-XVII-correction.pdf
I'm completely at a loss as to how I should understand 'shall have entered a port'.
Does this refer to the past, as in 'could have entered a port', or the future, as in 'will have finished school'?
Is it simply a lawyer's way of saying 'When a ship has entered a port or place of refuge'? Or rather, it carries a meaning that the latter structure can't express.
I'd like to hear your opinions.
Richard