Deep Sea - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: deep seaDeep sea
Of or pertaining to the deeper parts of the sea as a deep sea line i e a line to take soundings at a great depth deep sea lead deep sea soundings explorations etc...
Deep
Extending far below the surface of great perpendicular dimension measured from the surface downward and distinguished from high which is measured upward far to the bottom having a certain depth as a deep sea...
Oysters
Oysters. Stealing oysters from oyster beds properly marked out is felony and punishable as simple larceny, i.e., by penal servitude up to three years, or imprisonment up to three years, and, if a male under 16, with or without whipping. Dredging or netting for oysters in a bed is a misdemeanour punishable by imprisonment up to three months, with or without hard labour. See (English) Larceny Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 96), s. 26.Oyster beds are protected by Part III. of the (English) Sea Fisheries Act, 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 45), and a close time for oysters is provided by the Sea (English) Fisheries (Oyster, Crab, and Lobster) Act, 1877 (40 & 41 Vict. c. 42), being between 15th June and 4th August for 'deep sea oysters,' and between 14th May and 4th August for other oysters. See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Fish (Sea),'Oysters are included in the term sea-fish; see (English) Sea-Fishing Industry Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 45).An action in rem will lie for damage caused by the negligent...
Seagoing
Going upon the sea especially sailing upon the deep sea used in distinction from coasting or river as applied to vessels...
Brotulidae
a natural family of chiefly deep sea fishes related to the Ophidiidae...
Coccolith
One of a kind of minute calcareous bodies probably vegetable often abundant in deep sea mud...
Dipsey
Deep sea as a dipsey line a dipsy lead...
Elasipoda
An order of holothurians mostly found in the deep sea They are remarkable for their bilateral symmetry and curious forms...
Haaf
The deep sea fishing for cod ling and tusk off the Shetland Isles...
lancetfish
A large elongated scaleless voracious deep sea fish Alepidosaurus ferox having long sharp lancetlike teeth and a long saillike dorsal fin...
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