المسؤولية المدنية لمـالك السفينة ومجهزها

civil liability of the owner ship The

       Ship owner is a person who has acquired ownership of one of the causes of public ownership, or in accordance with the reasons for the special set forth in maritime law, since gaining ownership of the vessel in accordance with civil law by purchase, gift, or by inheritance or commandment, there are special maritime law reasons to gain ownership of the ship it is by building, or by quitting or giving up ownership of the insured vessel after its owner compensation for the losses suffered by its maritime accident insured                                                                             

        The owner of the ship does have directly exploiting and processing of fuel, supplies and contracted with the captain and marine crew and insurance and the conclusion of the contract of carriage, called the then owner-equipped, has been the owner leased the ship to another person named tenant equipped against the fare to be agreed upon, if breached the ship owner in the implementation of contracts concluded by shall be liable in accordance with the rules of the contractual responsibility is also responsible tort for personal mistakes                                                         

The basic principle is that the responsibility of the owner of the ship is an absolute all his money, but the legislator Marine out of this provision and the granting of the ship owner the right to determine responsibility

          In this research will be limited to the study of civil liability of the owner of the ship or tenant  according to Iraqi law, with a statement of the position of some international conventions and other Relevant laws if required to study it