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a whip used as an instrument of punishment consisting of nine pieces of knotted line or cord fastened to a handle formerly used to flog offenders on the bare back called also the cat It was used in the British Navy to maintain discipline on board sailing ships...
Custom-house
Custom-house, the house or office where commodities are entered for importation or exportation; where the duties, bounties, or drawbacks payable or receivable upon such importation or exportation are paid or received; and where ships are cleared out, etc. The principal British custom-house is in London, but there are custom-houses subordinte to it in all the considerable sea-ports...
Insurance
Insurance, see, Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), s. 80C, Expl. 1.Insurance, the act of providing against a possible loss, by entering into a contract with one who is willing to give assurance, that is, to bind himself to make good such loss should it occur. In this contract, the chances of benefit are equal to the insured and the insurer. The first actually pays a certain sum, and the latter undertakes to pay a larger, if an accident should happen. The one renders his property secure; the other receives money with the probability that it is clear gain. The instrument by which the contract is made is called a policy; the stipulated consideration, a premium. As to what is known as a coupon policy, i.e., a coupon cut out of a diary, etc., see General Accident, etc., Assce. Corpn. v. Robertson, 1909 AC 404.Insurable Interest must be possessed by the person taking out a policy; he must be so circumstanced as to have benefit from the existence of the person or thing insured, and some preju...
Foreign Enlistment Act
Foreign Enlistment Act, 59 Geo. 3, c. 69 (as to which see Burton v. Pinkerton, (1867) LR 2 Ex 340), repealed and replaced by the Foreign Enlistment Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 90), passed to 'regulate the conduct of the Majesty's subjects during the existence of hostilities between foreign states with which her majesty is at peace.' by s. 4 of this Act, if any British subject accepts any engagement in the military or naval service of any foreign state at war with any foreign state at peace with the Crown,he is punishable by fine and imprisonment or either; and by s. 11, if any person within theBritish Dominions 'prepares or fits out any naval or military expedition to proceed against the dominions of any friendly state,' such person and any persons employed in any capacity in any such expedition are similarly punishable. In Reg. v. Jameson, (1896) 2 QB 425, many persons were tried and convicted for an offence against s. 11 in making an armed incursion into the Transvaal in South Africa...
Inchmaree clause
Inchmaree clause [after Inchmaree, a British steamer whose 1884 sinking in Liverpool harbor resulted in its formulation] : a clause in a marine insurance policy that covers damage or loss caused by the negligence of a vessel's own captain or crew or by any defect in the ship's hull or machinery ...
Consul
Consul, an officer appointed by competent authority to reside in a foreign country, to facilitate and extend the commerce carried on between the subjects of the country which appoints him and those of the country or place in which he is to reside. The office appears to have originated in Italy, about the middle of the twelfth century, and was generally established all over Europe in the sixteenth century. British consuls were formerly appointed by the Crown, upon the recommenda-tion of great trading companies, or of merchants engaged in trade with a particular country and place; but they are now directly appointed by Government, without requiring any such recommendation, though it, of course, is always attended to wen made. The right of sending consuls to reside in foreign countries depends either upon a tacit or express convention.The duties of a consul, even in the confined sense in which they are commonly understood, are important and multifarious. It is his business to be always on...
Debenture
Debenture [fr. debeo, Lat., to owe] may be defined generally as a charge in writing [not necessarily sealed, see British India, etc., Co. v. Commissioners of Inland Revenue, (1881) 7 QBD 165] of certain pro-perty with the repayment at a time fixed of money lent by person therein named at a given interest, but the term is a very elastic one. The word 'debenture' is of ancient origin and appears to have been in use five centuries ago (Palmer's Company Precedents, Pt. III., p. 1); and a document which, though it mentions to security and is only a promise to pay, is properly described as a debentures, and as a marketable security will require to be stamped as such, Spenyer v. Inland Revenue Commissioners, (1907)1 KB 246. By the (English) Companies Act, 1929, s. 380, a debenture is defined as including debenture stock, bonds or other securities of a company whether constituting a charge on the assets of the company or not. The charge created by debentures as a rule is fixed on the company's...
Knot
Knot (nautical mile), a division of the log-line. So a ship going eight nautical miles in the hour is said to go eight knots. The nautical mile has been fixed by the British Admiralty at 6,080 feet. The land mile is 5,280 feet....
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