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Letters of marque

Letters of marque, commissions for extraordinary reprisals for reparation to merchants taken and despoiled by strangers at sea, grantable by the Secretaries … Letters of marque, commissions for extraordinary reprisals for reparation to merchants taken and despoiled by strangers at sea, grantable by the Secretaries of State, with the approbation of the

Factor

substitute especially a mercantile agent who buys and sells goods and transacts business for others in commission a commission merchant or consignee He may be a home factor or a foreign factor He may buy and sell in

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Factor

merchandise consigned or delivered to him by or for his principal, for a compensation commonly called factorage or commission. Hence he is often called a commission-merchant or consignee; and the goods received by him for sale are

Commissionnaire

An agent or factor a commission merchant

Factorage

Factorage, the wages, commission, or allowance made to a factor by a merchant. The compensation paid to a factor for his or

Policies of Insurance, Court of

erected in pursuance of 43 Eliz. c. 12, which enabled the Lord Chancellor yearly to grant a standing commission to the Judge of the Admiralty, the Recorder of London, two doctors of the civil law, two common … of the Admiralty, the Recorder of London, two doctors of the civil law, two common lawyers, and eight merchants; any three of whom, one being a civilian, or a barrister, were thereby, and by 13 & 14

Drunkenness

Licensing Act, 1872, or otherwise similarly punishable], and who within the twelve months preceding the date of the commission of the offence has been convicted summarily at least three times of any offences so mentioned, and who … the peace. See also (English) Licensing (Consolidation) Act, 1910, s. 80; Refreshment Houses Act, 1860, s. 41; (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, s. 287; (English) Firearms Act, 1920, s. 2; Children and Young Persons Act, 1933 (23

Piracy

Piracy [fr. pirata, Lat.], the commission of those acts of robbery and violence upon the sea, which if committed upon land wold amount to … at Common Law have been made piracy by statute, e.g., rendering assistance to a pirate, or boarding a merchant ship and destroying her goods (8 Geo. 1, c. 24, s. 1, made perpetual by 2 Geo. 2,

Marriage

interpretation of the words 'knowingly and wilfully' in the ss. quoted, see the report of the Marriage Laws Commission, 1868, where it is further laid down that a marriage would be void 'if it were solemnized (however … ambassadors' chapels, or before a British consul, or within British lines, or on board a man-of-war, or a merchant vessel, which are now regulated by the (English) Foreign Marriages Act, 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. c. 23),

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