Cap. 13 Art. 286Person letting vessel may take in other goods in the place of those not shipped by freighter.

(1) Where the person letting the vessel is entitled to sail without a cargo, or with a portion only of the cargo, he may, for the purpose of securing the freight and the contribution to general average, take in other goods, even without the consent of the freighter.

(2) In any such case the freight for such other goods shall be accounted to the original freighter, who shall, moreover, be discharged from such contribution to general average as shall have been paid by such other goods.