Harbors and Navigation Code section 869

When a mate or seaman is wrongfully discharged, or is driven to leave the vessel by the cruelty of the master on the voyage, it is then ended with respect to him, and he may recover his full wages.

Source: Section 869, https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=HNC§ionNum=869. (updated Jan. 1, 1937; accessed Sep. 1, 2025).

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Original Source: Section 869, https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=HNC§ionNum=869. (last accessed May 12, 2025).