46 USC App 762: Amount and apportionment of recovery
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46 USC App 762: Amount and apportionment of recovery Text contains those laws in effect on January 23, 2000
From Title 46-AppendixCHAPTER 21-DEATH ON HIGH SEAS BY WRONGFUL ACT

§762. Amount and apportionment of recovery

The recovery in such suit shall be a fair and just compensation for the pecuniary loss sustained by the persons for whose benefit the suit is brought and shall be apportioned among them by the court in proportion to the loss they may severally have suffered by reason of the death of the person by whose representative the suit is brought.

(Mar. 30, 1920, ch. 111, §2, 41 Stat. 537 .)

Cross References

Death of plaintiff pending action, see section 765 of this Appendix.

Section Referred to in Other Sections

This section is referred to in section 765 of this Appendix.