Note 547 — Chapter II · THE OPEN SEA

The Conference of the Maritime Committee held at Brussels in September 1910 also produced a draft convention concerning salvage, which the British Government likewise intends to ratify provided Parliament passes the "Maritime Conventions Bill," see above, § 265, p. 333, note 2, and Supplement to the American Journal of International Law, IV. (1910), p. 126. According to the practice of the Admiralty Court—see the case of the Johann Friederich, 1 W. Robinson, 35—salvage on the Open Sea is, just like collisions, a matter of communis juris upon which the Courts of all maritime States are competent to adjudicate. See Phillimore, IV. § 815; and Dicey, "Conflict of Laws" (2nd ed. 1908), p. 791. See also sect. 545 and 565 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894.