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Four seas. These are (1) The Atlantic, which comprises the Irish Sea and St. George's Channel; (2) The North Sea; (3) The German Ocean; and (4) The English Channel. See Woolrych on Waters. Before the reign of James the First, the four seas were understood with more restriction, the Scotch seas being excluded. The expression 'within the four seas,' 'intra quatuor maria,' means 'within the kingdome of England, and the dominions of the same kingdome.'-Co. Litt. 107 a....
Sea
Sea. See FOUR SEAS. The main or high seas are part of the realm of England, for thereon the Courts of Admiralty have jurisdiction, but they are not subject to the Common Law. The main sea begins at the low-watermark, but between the high-water mark and the low-water mark, where the sea ebbs and flows, the Common Law and Admiralty have, divisum imperium, an alternate jurisdiction, the one upon the water when it is full sea, the other upon the land when it is an ebb. See FORESHORE.The jurisdiction of the Admiralty within three miles of the low-water mark will be found elaborately discussed in Reg. v. Keyn, (1876) 2 Ex D 63. In that case it was held by a majority of seven judges to six that the Central Criminal Court had no jurisdiction to try for manslaughter the foreign captain of a foreign ship--the Franconia--which, in passing within three miles of the British shore, ran into a British ship and sank her; but this state of the law was soon afterwards altered by the (English) Territoria...
Sea snake
Any one of many species of venomous aquatic snakes of the family Hydrophidaelig having a flattened tail and living entirely in the sea especially in the warmer parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans They feed upon fishes and are mostly of moderate size but some species become eight or ten feet long and four inches broad...
Admiralty
Admiralty, the Executive Department of State which presides over the naval forces of the kingdom. The normal head is the 'Lord High Admiral,' but in practice the functions of the Office are discharged by several Commissioners, of whom one is the Chief, and is called the First Lord. He is a member of the Cabinet and is assisted by four Sea Lords, now always selected from Officers of the Service, two Civil Lords and a Secretary.Means a court that exercises jurisdiction over all maritime contracts, torts, injuries or offences. The federal courts are so-called when exercising their admiralty jurisdiction, which is conferred by U.S. Constitution (Article III 2, Cl. 1), Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 47.The Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice was, as far as relates to Admiralty, formerly called the High Court of Admiralty, and was held before the Judge of the Admiralty, who formerly sat as deputy of the Lord High Admiral of England until that office was ...
Props
A game of chance in which four sea shells each called a prop are used instead of dice...
Quatuor maria
Quatuor maria, the four seas, which see...
four-month rule
four-month rule : a rule requiring that an action be taken within four months: as a : a rule in some states requiring that a defendant be tried within four months of the arrest, charge, or arraignment b : a rule set out in section 9-103(1)(d) of the Uniform Commercial Code that provides a secured creditor four months to perfect a security interest again in the state to which the collateral perfected previously in another state has been moved ...
Tenant is in arrears of rent for not less than four months
Tenant is in arrears of rent for not less than four months, the expression 'the tenant is in arrears of rent for not less than four months' may suggest that the tenant is in arrears of rent for one or any number of months and that the arrears have fallen due four months back meaning thereby that within four months there was no attempt on the part of the tenant to pay up the arrears and cure the default, Har Charan Singh v. Shiv Rani, AIR 1981 SC 1284 (1291): (1981) 2 SCC 535....
Perils of the sea
Perils of the sea, means perils, dangers and accidents of the sea or other navigable waters is an expression meaning perils, or accidents peculiar to sea or navigable waters, which could not have been reasonably foreseen and guarded against by ordinary skill and prudence by carrier or his agents or servants, Collis Line Pvt. Ltd. v. New India Assurance Co. Ltd., AIR 1982 Ker 127.They are strictly the natural accidents peculiar to the water, but the law has extended this phrase to comprehend events not attributable to natural causes, as captures by pirates, and losses by collision, where no blame is attachable to either ship, or at all events to the injured ship. It was held by the House of Lords in Hamilton, Fraser & Co. v. Pandorf & Co., (1887) 12 App Cas 518, that, where (under a charter-party or bills of lading which excepted dangers and accidents of the seas'), rats gnawed a hole in a pipe on board ship, whereby sea-water escaped and damaged a cargo of rice, without neglect or defa...
Sea
One of the larger bodies of salt water less than an ocean found on the earths surface a body of salt water of second rank generally forming part of or connecting with an ocean or a larger sea as the Mediterranean Sea the Sea of Marmora the North Sea the Carribean Sea...
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