501, 24 Cc. C. A. 182; Auten vy. Bennett, 88 App. Div. 15, 84 N. Y. Supp. 689. In French law, freighting and affreighting are distinguished. The owner of a ship freights it. (le frete;) he is called the freighter, (fretcur ;) he is the letter or lessor, (locateur, locator.) The merchant affreights (affrete) the ship, and is called the affreighter, (affreteur,;) he is the hirer, (locataire, conductor.) Emerig. Tr. des Ass. c. 11, § 3.