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Coasting ship
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Registry of ships
Act, except (s. 3) 'ships not exceeding fifteen tons burden employed solely in navigation on the rivers or coasts of the United Kingdom, or on the rivers or coasts of some British possession within which the managing … Registry of ships. The registry of ships appears to have been introduced into this country by the (English) Navigation Act (12
Ship
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Official Log-book
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. … 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
Land-waiter
measure it, and to take an account thereof. In some ports they also execute the office of a coast-waiter. They are likewise occasionally styled searchers, and are to attend and join with the patent-searcher in the execution … searchers, and are to attend and join with the patent-searcher in the execution of all dockets for the shipping of goods to be exported to foreign ports; and in cases where drawbacks on bounties are to be
Res ipsa loquitur
negligence is required beyond the accident itself, which is such as necessarily to involve negligence-- e.g., where a ship in motion collides with a ship at anchor. It ought not to be applied unless the facts proved … involve negligence, e.g., a collision between two trains upon a railway: see Carpue v. London, Brighton, and South Coast Ry. Co., (1844) 5 Ex. 787. Res ipsa loquitur (thing speaks for itself) is a principle which, in
Blockade
a guilty violation 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 … must be effective; that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy. Accordingly, the two essential circumstances necessary to make a blockade good against neutrals are-(1) that
Sea
that the Central Criminal Court had no jurisdiction to try for manslaughter the foreign captain of a foreign ship--the Franconia--which, in passing within three miles of the British shore, ran into a British ship and sank her; … any offence committed by a person, whether a British subject or not, within one marine league of the coast, 'although it may have been committed on board or by means of a foreignship,' is an offence within
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