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Ship's papers, documents required for the manifes-tation of the property of the ship and cargo, etc. See a list of them in Form No. 17, Appx. K, of the Rules of the Supreme Court, 1883.They are of two sorts: (1) those required by the law of a particular country, as the certificate of registry, licence, charter-party, bills of lading and of health, required by the law of England to be onboard all British ships; (2) those required by the law of nations to be onboard neutral ships, to vindicate their title to that character; they are the passport, sea-brief, or sea-letter, proofs of property, the muster-roll, or role d'equipage; the charter-party, the bills of lading and invoices, the log-book or ship's journal, and the bill of health, 1 Marshall on Insur., c. 9, s. 6....
Harbouring
Harbouring. This constitutes an offence in the case of (1) constables on duty [see, however, Sherras v. de Rutzen, (1895) 1 QB 918, and (English) Licensing (Consolidation) Act, 1910 (10 Edw. 7 & 1 Geo. 5, c. 24), s. 78]; (2) deserters from merchant ships (see s. 236 (British ship) and s. 238 (foreign ship) of the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894); (3) felons with a view to their concealment from justice; and (4) thieves or reputed thieves under ss. 10 and 11 of the (English) Prevention of Crimes Act, 1871. See ESCAPE....
Passage Broker
Passage Broker, any person who sells or lets steerage passages in any ship proceeding 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 borough of the borough council, and in a county district of the district council. See s. 343 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894....
Anchor
Anchor. The (English) Anchors and Chain Cables Act, 1899 (62 & 63 Vict. c. 23), consolidating, with small amendments, three Acts of 1864, 1871 and 1874, provides that unproved anchors are not to be sold or bought for a British ship, and regulates the made of testing by testing establishments licensed by the Board of Trade. See also (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, ss. 290, 538-40. As to recovering the value of an anchor which has been slipped to avoid a collision, see The Port Victoria, 1902, P. 25....
Ice
Ice. As to the duty of the master of a British ship in relation to dangerous ice, see (English) Merchant Shipping (Safety and Local Law Conventions) Act, 1932 (22 Geo. 5, c. 9), ss. 30, 32; and the Ice Patrol, see Schedule I., Articles 36, 37....
Justiciary, High Court of
Justiciary, High Court of, the supreme Criminal Court of Scotland, consists of the Lord Justice General, the Lord Justice Clerk, and the other Judges of the Court of Session who are exofficio Lords Commissioners of Justiciary. It has jurisdic-tion in all cases of crime committed in Scotland or in a British ship at sea. It sits in Edinburgh, and, on circuit, at various other places. It has certain appellate jurisdiction, the principal of which is that provided for by the Criminal Appeal (Scotland) Act, 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5, c. 15) (see CRIMINAL APPEAL). When exercising this jurisdiction, three Lords Commissioners are a quorum....
Official Log-book
Official Log-book, a log-book in a certain form, and containing certain specified entries required by ss. 239 and 240 of the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, re-enacting ss. 280-282 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, to be kept by all British merchant ships, except those exclusively engaged in the coasting trade. By s. 239(6) the entries are admissible as evidence....
Westminster, Statute of, 1931
Westminster, Statute of, 1931 922 Geo. 5, c. 4). This Act was passed to confirm and ratify certain declarations made by the delegates to the Imperial Conferences of 1926 and 1930. Six Dominions are affected: Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the Irish Free State, and Newfoundland. The arrangement is as follows:-S. 1. Meaning of 'Dominion' in this Act.S. 2. Validity of laws made by Parliament of a Dominion; the Colonial Laws Validity Act, 1865, shall not apply to any law made by the Parliament of a Dominion.S. 3. Power of Parliament of Dominion to legislate extra-territorially.S. 4. Parliament of United Kingdom not to legislate for 'Dominion' except by consent.S. 5. Powers of Dominion Parliaments in relation to shipping.S. 6. Powers of Dominion Parliaments in relation to Courts of Admiralty.S. 7. Saving for British North America Acts and application of Act to Canada.S. 8. Saving for Constitution Acts of Australia and New Zealand.S. 9. Saving with respect to State of Australi...
H M S
A prefix used in the names of British warships meaning His Majestys Ship or Her Majestys Ship as H M S Pinafore...
National insurance
National insurance. The (English) National Insur-ance Act, 1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 55), introduced by Mr. Lloyd George, established a wide system of compulsory state insurance covering both ill-health and unemployment, which is based upon premiums contributed in part by the employer, in part by the employee, and in part by the State. The Act consisted of three parts, the first dealing with National Health Insurance, the second with Unemployment Insurance, and the third contained miscellaneous provisions. This Act remained the basis of National Health Insurance, although the subject of very extensive amendment, until the National Health Insurance Act, 1924, consolidated the law. The law has been consolidated again by the (English) National Health Insurance Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5, and 1 Edw. 8, c. 32), amends and repeals the whole of the Acts passed in 1920, 1922, 1924 and 1928. The arrangement is as follows:-Part I. Insured Persons and Contributions.Part II. Benefits.Part III. Approved Soc...
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