divided-damages rule
Maritime law. The obsolete principle that when two parties are jointly liable to a third party for a tort, each party is liable for only half the damages.
? The courts now apply a comparative-negligence standard. [Cases: Collision 143. C.J.S. Collision ¡ì¡ì 242, 245, 259, 261¨C262.]
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