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Foreign seamen
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Lien
constantly in the habit of decreeing a sale to satisfy maritime lines--such as bottomry-bonds, seamen's wages, repairs of foreign ships, salvage, and other claims of a kindred nature (see MARITIME LIEN), and exceptions occur under statute, e.g.,
Revendication
in all, commercial countries, hypothecations and liens are recognised to exist for seamen's wages and for repairs of foreign ships, and for salvage, Story's Confl. Of Laws, s. 401. An action to recover rights in and possession
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Maritime law
Law, the laws of Oleron and Wisby the works of juris-consults, the judicial decisions of our own and foreign countries, etc. though still susceptible of amendment, our system corresponds more nearly than any other system of maritime … Maritime law, the law relating to harbours, ships, and seamen. An important branch of the commercial law of maritime nations; divided into a variety of departments, such as
Workmen's Compensation Act
Rules, 1926. S. 37 gives power to make Orders in Council giving effect to any convention with a Foreign State providing for reciprocity in matters relating to workmen's compensation, and in particular the Anglo-French Convention of 1909 … payment of a fixed sum or a share in the earnings or otherwise.' And s. 35 includes masters, seamen and apprentices to the sea service and apprentices in the sea-fishing service. Except by s. 3 (2), persons
Wills
all wills must be in writing, wills of personal estate made by soldiers in actual military service, or seamen at sea. This exception includes military and naval officers of all ranks. A will made under this s. … by the twenty-second s., see RE-PUBLICATION OF WILLS. As to wills of British subjects executed abroad, and of foreigners dying in this country, see DOMICIL, and the Wills Acts, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. cc. 114 and
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