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memorandum clause

clause in a marine insurance policy setting forth exclusions or special terms for loss or damage to particular cargo

prize

a ship) lawfully captured in time of war 2 : the wartime capture of a ship and its cargo at sea

Blockade

of blockade to the offending party, when captured, is the condemnation usually of both the ship and the cargo. Consult Hall's International Law. Pacific blockades, i.e., blockades of the ports of a power with whom the blockading

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Damageable

Capable of being injured or impaired liable to or susceptible of damage as a damageable cargo

vessel

be a vessel, for purposes of the Jones Act, the structure's purpose must be the transportation of passengers, cargo or equipment from place to place across navigable waters. Source: FindLaw

Fraught

A freight a cargo

Roustabout

A laborer especially a deck hand on a river steamboat who moves the cargo loads and unloads wood and the like in an opprobrious sense a shiftless vagrant who lives by chance

Ballast

prevent its being readily over-set, a vessel being said to be 'in ballast' when she sails without a cargo. For penalty for taking from shore of harbour, etc., see (English) Harbours Act, 1814 (54 Geo. 3, c.

Shipload

The load or cargo of a ship

Fraughting

Constituting the freight or cargo

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