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Home Dictionary Name: foreign going shipForeign going ship
Foreign going ship, means a ship, not being a home trade ship, employed in trading between any port or place in India and any other port or place or between ports or places, outside India. [Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 (44 of 1958), s. 3(13)]. See SHIP....
Ship
Ship, the carriage of goods by Sea Act, 1925 (26 of 1925). [XXVI of 1925, Sch. Art. 1, Cl. (d)]Ship, means any vessel used for the carriage of goods by sea.A type of vessel used or intended to be used in navigation, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1382.In the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60), by s. 742, 'includes every description of vessel used in navigation not propelled by oars.' [This definition has been adopted by the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 34), s. 48(1)]'Foreign-going ship,' by the same s., 'includes every ship employed in trading, or going between some place or places in the United Kingdom, and some place or places situate beyond the following limits: that is to say, the coasts of the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, and the continent of Europe, between the river Elbe and Brest inclusive'; and'Home-trade ship' includes 'every ship employed in trading or going' within the above limits; and'Home-trade pass...
Foreign-going vessel or aircraft
Foreign-going vessel or aircraft, means any vessel or aircraft for the time being engaged in the carriage of goods or passengers between any port or airport in India and any port or airport outside India, whether touching any intermediate port or airport in India or not, and includes-(i) any naval vessel of a foreign Government taking part in any naval exercises;(ii) any vessel engaged in fishing or any other operations outside the territorial waters of India;(iii) any vessel or aircraft proceeding to a place out-side India for any purpose whatsoever. [Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), s. 2 (21)]...
Attestation
Attestation, the signing by a witness to the signature of another of a statement that a document was signed in the presence of the witness. The (English) Criminal Procedure Act, 1865 (28 & 29 Vict. c. 18), s. 7 (applicable both to civil and criminal cases), renders it unnecessary to prove by the attesting witness any instrument to the validity of which attestation is not requisite, and such instrument may now be proved by admission, or otherwise, as if there had been no attesting witness. Wills and codicils (1 Vict. c. 26), warrants of attorney and cognovits (1 & 2 Vict. c. 110), agreements with crews of 'foreign-going' ships ((English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, s. 115), and bills of sale (see BILL OF SALE) require attestation.As to the attestation of deeds in execution of certain powers of appointment, see (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 159, replacing (English) Law of Property Amendment Act, 1859, s. 12.As to attestation by a justice of the peace of the enlistment of a rec...
British ship
British ship, As to the qualification for owning and the obligation to register British ships, see Merchant Shipping Act,1894, ss. 1-3. The owner must be a British subject, natural born or naturalized, or a denizen q.v., or a body corporate established and subject to the laws of some part of His Majesty's dominions and having their principal place of business in those dominions but not a natural born British subject who has taken the oath of allegiance to a foreign sovereign or State or become a citizen or subject of a foreign State or been naturalized or made a denizen, unless while he is owning a British ship he has taken the oath of allegiance to the King after his disqualification and is, during his ownership, either resident in the said dominions or is partner of a firm carrying on business there....
Foreign seamen
Foreign seamen. As to apprehension of, for deser-tion, see (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, s. 238, re-enacting the (English) Foreign Deserters Act, 1852 (15 & 16 Vict. c. 26). See also the (English) Deserters from Foreign Ships Order, 1934, No. 893....
Foreign Enlistment Act
Foreign Enlistment Act, 59 Geo. 3, c. 69 (as to which see Burton v. Pinkerton, (1867) LR 2 Ex 340), repealed and replaced by the Foreign Enlistment Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 90), passed to 'regulate the conduct of the Majesty's subjects during the existence of hostilities between foreign states with which her majesty is at peace.' by s. 4 of this Act, if any British subject accepts any engagement in the military or naval service of any foreign state at war with any foreign state at peace with the Crown,he is punishable by fine and imprisonment or either; and by s. 11, if any person within theBritish Dominions 'prepares or fits out any naval or military expedition to proceed against the dominions of any friendly state,' such person and any persons employed in any capacity in any such expedition are similarly punishable. In Reg. v. Jameson, (1896) 2 QB 425, many persons were tried and convicted for an offence against s. 11 in making an armed incursion into the Transvaal in South Africa...
Unseaworthy ships
Unseaworthy ships. Sending an unseaworthy [see Hedley v. Pinkney Steamship Co., (1892) 1 QB 58 CA] ship to sea in such a state that the life of any person is likely to be endangered is a misdemeanour by s. 47 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, reproducing s. 4 of the repealed Merchant Shipping Act, 1876, unless the person charged proves either that he used all reasonable means to insure the ship being sent to sea in a seaworthy state, or that her going to sea in such an unseaworthy state was under the circumstances reasonable and justifiable.As to the meaning of unseaworthiness in a bill of lading, see The Schwan, 1909 AC 450....
foreign affairs manual (9 fam)
foreign affairs manual (9 fam) Foreign Affairs Manual 9, Chapter 41 relates to nonimmigrant visas. Chapter 42 covers immigrant visas. Chapter 40 relates to visa ineligibilities and waivers. Go to the U.S. Department of State site to review 9 FAM Visas. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...
Foreign country
Foreign country, means a country or place outside India, and includes a ship which is for the time being in the territorial waters of such a country or place. [Foreign Marriage Act, 1969 (33 of 1969), s. 2(c)]Means any country other than India. [Limitation Act, 1963 (36 of 1963), s. 2 (g)]...
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