---
kind: "section"
citation: "32 C.F.R. § 842.73"
title: "32"
number: "842.73"
heading: "Definitions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/32/842.73"
---

# §842.73. Definitions.

- (a) **Admiralty contracts.** A contract covering maritime services or a maritime transaction such as vessel procurement and space for commercial ocean transportation of DOD cargo, mail, and personnel is an admiralty contract.
- (b) **General average.** General average is the admiralty rule that when someone's property is thrown overbaord to save a ship, the ship owner and all owners of the cargo must share the loss.
- (c) **Maritime torts.** A maritime tort is one committed in navigable waters or on land or in the air where a substantial element of the damage, personal injury, or death occurred in navigable waters. The activity causing the tortious act must bear some significant relationship to traditional maritime activity.
- (d) **Vessel.** Every description of watercraft used or usable as a means of transportation on water is a vessel. ([1 U.S.C. 3](/usc/1/3.md))

## Notes

### Amendments

[55 FR 2809, Jan. 29, 1990. Redesignated at 81 FR 83695, Nov. 22, 2016]

### Source

Source: 55 FR 2809, Jan. 29, 1990. Redesignated at 81 FR 83695, Nov. 22, 2016, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: Sec. 8013, 100 Stat. 1053, as amended; 10 U.S.C. 8013, except as otherwise noted.

### Source

Source: 55 FR 2809, Jan. 29, 1990, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[81 FR 83688, Nov. 22, 2016]

### Amendments

[55 FR 2809, Jan. 29, 1990. Redesignated at 81 FR 83695, Nov. 22, 2016]