Upon  sale  of        591.  Where  the  ship  has  been  sold  after  the  contract  of  ca,rriage

ship  freight     jjg^g  ^ggj^  ^g^^jg  ^ ^^ ^  j.^  j^^  ^^  ^^^3  freig^  passes  to  the  purchaser  («);

pSiSsss  to  pur™  y  o

chaser.  The  "  freight  foUows  as  an  incident  to  the  property  in  the  ship  '^  ;

and  the  owner  of  the  goods  must  generally  pay  it  to  him  who

is  owner  of  the  ship  at  the  time  when  the  payment  becomes

due  {k).
In  Lindsay  «?.  Gibbs  (*),  the  owner  of  a  ship  chartered  her,  and
afterwards,  in  June,  1854,  sold  her,  and  executed  bills  of  sale  for
the  shares.  The  assignees  of  twenty-four  sixty-fourths  registered
their  transfer  shortly  after ;  but  the  transfer  of  the  remainder
remained  unregistered  until  January,  1855.  Meanwhile,  in  Decem-
ber, 1854,  the  original  owner  assigned  the  charter  party  freight  to
the  plaintiffs,  and  they  gave  notice  of  this  to  the  charterers.  It
was  held,  that  an  assignment  of  shares  in  a  vessel  includes  the
earnings  which  may  be  attributable  to  those  shares,  although  the
word  "freight"  may  not  be  mentioned.  The  assignees  of  the
freight  were,  therefore,  not  entitled  to  the  freight  belonging  to
the  twenty-four  sixty-fourths.  But  they  were  entitled  to  that  be-
longing to  the  forty  sixty-fourths;  for  the  purchasers  of  those  share^
could  only  be  regarded  as  owners  from  the  time  of  registering.
