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Forwarding merchant, one who receives and forwards goods, taking upon himself the expenses of transportation, for which he receives a compensation from the owners, having no concern in the vessels or waggons by which they are transported, and no interest in the freight, and not being deemed a common carrier, but a mere warehouseman and agent, Story on Bailments, 509....
Hire
Hire [locatio, conductio, Lat.], a bailment for a reward or compensation. It is divisible into four sorts:-(1) The hiring of a thing for use (locatio rei). (2) The hiring of work and labour (locatio operis faciendi). (3) The hiring of care and services to be performed or bestowed on the thing delivered (locatio custodi'). (4) The hiring of the carriage of goods (locatio operis mercium vehendarum) from one place to another. The three last are but sub-divisions of the general head of hire of labour and services.The rights, duties, and obligations of the parties resulting from the contract of bailment for hire may be thus stated:-(I.) Hire of things. The letting to hire implies an obligation to deliver the thing to the hirer; to refrain from every obstruction to the use of it by the hirer during the period of the bailment; to do no act that shall deprive the hirer of the thing; to warrant the title and right of possession to the hirer, in order to enable him to use the thing, or to perfor...
Merchant shipping
Merchant shipping. The Acts relating to Merchant Shipping have been twice consolidated: first, in 1854, by 17 & 18 Vict. c. 104; and, secondly, in 1894, by the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60), which contains 748 ss. and 22 schedules, the 22nd Schedule containing 48 repealed enactments.By s. 713 of the (English) Act the Board of Trade exercises a general control over merchant shipping. Additions and amendments have been made to the Act of 1894 by various Acts, the most important of which re: the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1906,1907, 1911, 1920, and 1921; the Merchant Shipping (Stevedores and Trimmers) Act, 1911; the Merchant Shipping (Seamen's Allotment)Act, 1911; the Marine Conventions Act, 1911; Merchant Shipping (Certificates) Act, 1914; Merchant Shipping (Salvage)Act, 1916; Merchant Shipping (Wireless Telegraphy)Act, 1919; Merchant Shipping Acts (Amendment) Act, 1923; Fees (Increase) Act, 1923; Merchant Shipping (International Labour Conventions) Act, 1925; ...
go forward
go forward went forward gone forward going forward : to proceed with a lawsuit or a matter (as the presentation of evidence) in a lawsuit ...
Law merchant
Law merchant [lex mercatoria, Lat.], that part of the law of England which governs mercantile transactions. It is founded upon the general custom of merchants of all nations, which, though different from the general rules of the Common Law, has been gradually engrafted into it and made to form part of it. See Introduction to Smith's Merc. Law.Law merchant, means a system of customary law that developed in Europe during the Middle Ages and regulated the dealings of mariners and merchants in all the commercial countries of the world until the 17th century. Many of the law merchant's principles came to be incorporated into the common law, which in turn formed the basis of the Uniform Commercial Code. Also termed commercial law: lex mercatoria, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 893....
come forward
come forward : to make a presentation of something to the court usually used with with [must come forward with materials to show that there is a genuine issue of fact "J. H. Friedenthal et al."] [coming forward with the evidence] ...
Duly forwarded
Duly forwarded, the expression 'duly forwarded' in relation to an application under sub-s. (1) of, s. 3 shows that the State Government is expected to satisfy itself before the issue of a notification under sub-s. (2) of, s. 3, that the application in question is a proper application under sub-s. (1), and has been duly forwarded, Mahant Dharan Das v. State of Punjab, (1975) 1 SCC 343 (362). [Sikh Gurdwaras (Supplementary) Act, 1925, s. 3]...
Forward contract
Forward contract, means a transaction involving delivery, other than Cash or Tom or Spot delivery, of foreign exchange. [Foreign Exchange Manage-ment (Foreign Exchange Derivative Contracts) Regulations, 2000, R. 2 (iv)]The expression 'forward contracts' in s. 2(c) is construed so as to include speculative contracts which ostensibly are for delivery of goods, Shivanarayana Kabre v. State of Madras, AIR 1967 SC 986 (989). [Forward Contracts (Regulation) Act, (74 of 1952), s. 2(c)]An agreement to buy or sell a particular non-standardized asset (use currencies) at a fixed price on a future rate, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 666....
forward
forward : forward contract at contract ...
Forwardness
The quality of being forward cheerful readiness promtness as the forwardness of Christians in propagating the gospel...
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