Cornfield - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: cornfieldCornfield
A field where corn is or has been growing in England a field of wheat rye barley or oats in America a field of Indian corn...
Scarecrow
Anything set up to frighten crows or other birds from cornfields hence anything terifying without danger...
Average
Average, a medium, a mean proportion used in various senses:-(1) A service which a tenant owes to his lord by doing work with his avers.(2) A shipping or insurance term. (a) Average, or more fully general average, is where any damage or loss has been properly and voluntarily incurred in respect of a ship or cargo for its safety, e.g., goods thrown overboard in a storm to lighten the ship. Such loss by maritime law is shared proportionately between the shipowners and the owners of the cargo, according to value. This risk is almost always covered by insurance. An Average Bond is a bond entered into by the consignees of a cargo with the shipowners, when a general average loss has been sustained by the ship, binding the former to pay their proportion as soon as ascertained. (b) Particular average is damage, or loss to a ship, or cargo, other than a general average loss. Such a loss rests where it falls, that is to say, is borne by the owner of the thing lost or damaged, or by his insurer, ...
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