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Passengers

of passengers contribute to general average. For definition of 'passenger' and 'passenger ship,' see (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, s. 267, and (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1906, ss. 13, 85, and Sch. II., and (English) Merchant Shipping

Limited liability

to goods or passengers carried in their ships is limited by s. 503 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (which section can be contracted out of, see Clark v. Dunraven, Lord, 1897 AC 59), re-enacting s. 54

Load-line

this provision of the Act of 1890 was re-enacted by s. 437 of the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, and see also s. 8 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1906. Both these sections have now been repealed

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Parish Council

Parish Council. Established by the Local Govern-ment Act, 1894, s. 1 (see now Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), ss. 43-55), for

Passage Broker

from the British Islands to any place out of Europe, not within the Mediterranean (see Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, s. 341). Such person requires a licence, in London of the justices of the peace, in a county

Trust

Trust, is a comprehensive expression, as covering not only the relationship of trustee and beneficiary but also that a bailor and bailee master and servant pledger and pledgee, guardian and ward and all other relations which...

Salvage

on Salvage, Abbott on Shipping, Maude and Pollock on Shipping, Maclachlan on Shipping; and see Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (57 & 58Vict. c. 60) (substituted for Merchant Shipping Act, 1854 [17 & 18 Vict. c. 104)], ss.

Seamen

Those employed for this purpose upon rivers, lakes, or canals are denominated watermen. The (English) Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 and 1906 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60, and 6 Edw. 7, c. 48), contain numerous and elaborate

Statutory Rules and Orders

Labour, etc., and Orders of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, under the (English) Diseases of Animals Act, 1894, and other Acts; and hundreds of other rules, orders, and regulations, in some cases requiring to be laid

Succession duties

descendants, in cases where the duty on affidavit for probate had been paid; and the (English) Finance Act, 1894, by s. 1 directed that this duty should not be levied in respect of property chargeable with estate

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