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Registrar-General of shipping and seamen
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General ship
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Insurance
to what is known as a coupon policy, i.e., a coupon cut out of a diary, etc., see General Accident, etc., Assce. Corpn. v. Robertson, 1909 AC 404. Insurable Interest must be possessed by the person taking … in all the principal ports of the world, who forward regularly to Lloyd's accounts of the departures of ships from, and arrivals at, such ports, as well as of losses and other casualties; and, in general, all
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Average
lord by doing work with his avers. (2) A shipping or insurance term. (a) Average, or more fully general average, is where any damage or loss has been properly and voluntarily incurred in respect of a ship
Vessel
or of goods and a caisson. [Explosives Act, 1884 (IV of 1884), s. 4 (j)] According to the General Clauses Act a 'ship' shall include a vessel of every description used in navigation and not exclusively propelled
Passengers
the ship, in case of imminent danger, either from tempest or enemies, to lend their assistance for the general safety; and in the event of their declining, may be punished for disobedience. This principle has been recognized
Wireless telegraphy
or the establishment or working of any apparatus for wireless telegraphy, in any place or onboard any British ship, except under and in accordance with a licence granted in that behalf by the Postmaster-General. Search-warrants may be
Revendication
of stoppage in transitu (q.v.) only in cases of insolvency of the vendee. The Roman law did not generally consider the transfer of property to be complete by sale and delivery alone without payment or security given … the price of goods sold, so long as they remain in possession of the debtor. In respect to ships, a privilege is given by the same code to a certain class of creditors, such as vendors, builders,
Lighthouse
the (English) Merchant Shipping (Mercantile Marine Fund) Act, 1898 (61 & 62 Vict. c. 44), which creates a General Lighthouse Fund in substitution for the Mercantile Marine Fund, and, subject to the rights of persons having authority … Lighthouse, a building, from which lights are shown to guide ships at sea. The power of erecting and maintaining them is a branch of the royal prerogative. By the
Merchant shipping
Schedule containing 48 repealed enactments.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, … Merchant shipping. The Acts relating to Merchant Shipping have been twice consolidated: first, in 1854, by 17 & 18 Vict.
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