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Custom-house agents were persons authorized by the Commissioners of Customs to act for parties at their option in the entry or clearance of ships, and the transaction of general business. They have been abolished for very many years...
Ship's husband
Ship's husband, a peculiar agent appointed by the owner of a ship to look after the repairs, equip-ment, management, and other concerns of the ship. His duties are: (1) To see to the proper outfit of the vessel, the repairs, tackle and furniture necessary for a seaworthy ship. (2) To have a proper master, mate, and crew for the ship, so that in this respect it shall be seaworthy. (3) To see to the due furnishing of provisions and stores. (4) To see to the regularity of clearance from the Custom-house of the registry. (5) To settle contracts, and provide for payment of the furnishings requisite. (6) To enter into charter-parties, or engage the vessel for general freight, under usual conditions; and to settle for freights and adjust averages with the merchant. (7) To preserve the proper certificates, surveys, and documents, in case of disputes with insures of freighters, and to keep regular books of the ship, Story's Agency, 31. See Maclachlan on Shipping. He must be registered under the...
Consideration
Consideration. Any act of the promisee (the person claiming the benefit of an obligation) from which the promisor (the person burdened with the obligation) or a stranger derives a benefit or advantage, or any labour detriment or inconvenience sustained or suffered by the promisee at the request, express or implied, of the promisor. See Laythoarp v. Bryant, 3 Scott 250; 2 Wms. Saund 137 h; Currie v. Misa, (1875) LR 10 Exch 153.Consideration is one of the facts which the courts require as evidence of intention, (a) that a person intends his promise to be binding on him, or (b) that he intends to divest himself of a beneficial interest in property. In its widest sense consideration is the price, motive or inducement for a promise or for a transfer of property from one person to another. The nature or quality of the consideration which will be sufficient for these purposes varies with the nature of the transaction and in the absence of consideration the Courts will, except in the case of s...
Notice to quit
Notice to quit. Where there is a tenancy from year to year subsisting, it can only be put an end to by notice to quit, which may be given by either party, and must be given one half-year previously to the expiration of the current year of tenancy, so as to expire at the same period of the year in which the tenant entered upon the premises. This rule is to be invariably followed in all cases, except where there is some special agreement between the parties to a different effect, or where a particular local custom intervenes, or where the (English) Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923, applies, in which case, by s. 25 of that Act, a notice must be given to terminate the tenancy twelve months from the end of the then current year of the tenancy.Where the term of a lease is to end on a precise day, there is no occasion for a notice to quit previously to bringing an action of ejectment because both parties are equally apprised of the termination of the term. If a tenant continue in possession by...
Tax
Tax [fr. tasg, Wel.; taxe, Fr. and Dut.], an impost; a tribute imposed on the subject; an excise; tallage.A monetary charge imposed by government on persons, entities or properly to yield public revenue, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1469.Some general principles of taxation have been said to be:-(1) The subjects of every State ought to contribute to the support of the Government as nearly as possible in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the State. In the observation or neglect of this maxim consists what is called the equality or inequality of taxation.(2) The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quality to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other person.(3) Every tax ought to be levied at the time, or in the manner, in which it is most likely to be co...
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