--(1) In a limitation claim the person seeking relief is to be the claimant and must be named in the claim by his name and not described merely as the owner of, or as bearing some other relation to, a particular ship or other property.
--(2) The claimant must make one of the persons with claims against him, in respect of the casualty to which the proceedings relates, defendant to the proceedings and may make any or all of the others defendants also.
--(3) At least one of the defendants to the proceedings must be named in the claim by his name but the other defendants may be described generally and not named by their names.
--(4) The claim must be served on one or more of the defendants who are named by their names therein and need not be served on any other defendant.
--(5) In this rule and rules 74.36, 74.37 and 74.38 "name" includes a firm name or the name under which a person carries on his business, and where any person with a claim against the claimant in respect of the casualty to which the proceedings relates has described himself for the purposes of his claim
merely as the owner of, or as bearing some other relation to, a ship or other property, he may be so described as defendant in the claim and, if so described, shall be deemed for the purposes of the rules aforesaid to have been named in the claim by his name.
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