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Pennsylvania Rule


A legal case against the vessel "PENNSYLVANIA" that has become a general point of law. The case held that where a vessel violates any statutory duty or navigational rule of the road, it must prove not only that the violation did not cause the collision, incident, or tort but could not have contributed to it in any way.