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Emigration of poor persons
orders, and regulations as he may prescribe, procure, or assist in procuring the emigration of, any orphan or deserted child under 16 who is chargeable to the county or county borough; any poor person who is chargeable,
Oasis
A fertile or green spot in a waste or desert esp in a sandy desert where the water table approaches the surface
Fouquieria
a genus of resinous succulent trees or shrubs of desert and semi desert regions of the southwestern U S that are leafless most of the year
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Convoy
(English) Naval Prize Act, 1864 (27 & 28 Vict. c. 25), by which the master of a ship deserting a convoy is liable to a penalty of 500l. and one year's imprisonment. See Hall or Wheaton on
Equity to a settlement (Wife's)
rule being to settle one-half in ordinary cases, but the whole if the husband were insolvent or had deserted his wife or there had been a dissolution of marriage on the ground of his adultery, Barrow v.
Derelict
Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 9), s. 24. --Abandoned deserted: cast away. Applied to shipping Goats or other vessels for taken or found on the seas without any
Departure
Departure [fr. decessus, Lat.], in pleading, when a party deserts the ground that he took in his last antecedent pleading and resorts to another. The rule against departure
Delivery of possession
of possession (see POSSESSION, WRIT OF), and in the case of small tenements by a justice's order (see DESERTED PREMISES).
Barratry
commission of any fraud upon the owners or insurers of a ship by the master or crew, as deserting her, sinking her, or doing any act which may subject her to arrest, detention, loss, or forfeiture, etc.
Contract, breach of, inducement of
the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, an offence to persuade or attempt to persuade seamen or apprentices to desert or absent themselves from duty. As to whether such inducement can, apart from any statutory provision, be an
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