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Plimsolls Mark

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

A mark conspicuously painted on the port side of all British sea going merchant vessels to indicate the limit of submergence allowed by law so called from Samuel Plimsoll by whose efforts the act of Parliament to prevent overloading was procured

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