Tasman Steamship Company Limited v Winstone Limited - [1955] NZLR 588

Shipping and Seamen — Bill of Lading — Construction — Goods Carried from Yokohama to Wellington under Bill of Lading — Effect on Contract of Clause therein "Subject to the provisions of the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act of the United States of America", which applied to Contracts for Carriage of Goods by Sea to or from United States Ports — Clause construed as incorporating, by Agreement of Parties, in Bill of Lading, Operative "provisions" of United States Statute — Principle expressed in Maxim, Verba chartarum fortius accipiuntur contra proferentem, applied.