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Admiral, [derived through the Fr. amiral, from Amir al Bahir, Arab., commander of the sea or fleet], an officer having high command in the Royal Navy. An admiral has two subordinate commanders under him, a vice-admiral and rear-admiral, distinguished into three classes by the color of their flags, white, blue, and red. The admiral carries his flag at the main-topmost head, the vice-admiral at the fore-topmost head, and the rear-admiral at the mizzen-topmost head....
Vice-Admiral
Vice-Admiral, an under-admiral at sea, or admiral on the coasts: a naval officer of a rank which is next to Admiral....
Self admiration
Admiration of ones self...
Lord High Admiral
Lord High Admiral. See ADMIRALTY....
Droits of admiralty
Droits of admiralty, the perquisites attached to the office of Admiral of England (or Lord High Admiral). Prince George of Denmark, the husband of Queen Anne and Lord High Admiral, resigned the rights to these droits to the Crown for a salary, as Lord High Admiral, of 7,000l. a year. When the office was vacant, they belonged to the Crown. Of these perquisites, the most valuable is the right to the property of an enemy seized on the breaking out of hostilities. In the arrangement of the Civil List during the recent reigns, it was settled that whatever droits of Admiralty accrued were to be paid into the Exchequer for the use of the public. The Lord High Admiral's right to the tenth part of the property captured on the seas has been relinquished in favour of the captors. Droits of Admiralty also included all unclaimed wreck, flotsam, jetsam, ligan and derelict, which are now dealt with by the (English) Receiver of Wreck for the District, Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60),...
Flag officer
Flag officer, means an officer of the rank of Admiral of the Fleet, Admiral, Vice-Admiral or Real-Admiral. [Navy Act, 1962 (57 of 1962), s. 3(8)]...
Ellipsis
Omission a figure of syntax by which one or more words which are obviously understood are omitted as the virtues I admire for the virtues which I admire...
Admiralty
Admiralty, the Executive Department of State which presides over the naval forces of the kingdom. The normal head is the 'Lord High Admiral,' but in practice the functions of the Office are discharged by several Commissioners, of whom one is the Chief, and is called the First Lord. He is a member of the Cabinet and is assisted by four Sea Lords, now always selected from Officers of the Service, two Civil Lords and a Secretary.Means a court that exercises jurisdiction over all maritime contracts, torts, injuries or offences. The federal courts are so-called when exercising their admiralty jurisdiction, which is conferred by U.S. Constitution (Article III 2, Cl. 1), Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 47.The Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice was, as far as relates to Admiralty, formerly called the High Court of Admiralty, and was held before the Judge of the Admiralty, who formerly sat as deputy of the Lord High Admiral of England until that office was ...
Desertion
Desertion, (1) the criminal offence of abandoning the naval or military service without license. See ss. 12 et seq. of the (English) Army Act, 1881, replacing similar s.s of the (English) annual Mutiny Acts, and Reg. v. Cuming, (1887) 19 QBD 13.Also (2) an abandonment of a wife, a matrimonial offence, for which the remedy is under (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 185, by which a sentence of judicial separation may be obtained either by the husband or wife on the ground of desertion, without cause, for two years and upwards; and see (English) Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857 (20 & 21 Vict. c. 85), s. 21, as to orders for the protection of the property of wives deserted by their husbands; and the (English) Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) Act, 1895 (58 & 59 Vict. c. 39), repealing and re-enacting the (English) Married Women (Maintenance in Case of Desertion) Act, 1886, under which a deserted wife may obtain an order from justices of the peace that the husband pay her such weekly sum, n...
Brag
To talk about ones self or things pertaining to ones self in a manner intended to excite admiration envy or wonder to talk boastfully to boast often followed by of as to brag of ones exploits courage or money or of the great things one intends to do...
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