Half Decked - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: half deckedHalf decked
Partially decked...
Deck cargo
Deck cargo. By s. 10 of the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7, c. 48), 'deck cargo' means any cargo carried either in any uncovered space on deck or in any covered space not included in the cubical contents forming the ship's registered tonnage. The (English) Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act, 1932 (22 Geo. 5, c. 9), s. 61, gives the Board of Trade power to make regulations, known as 'timber cargo regulations,' as to the carrying of timber in any uncovered space on deck....
Cubbridge head
A bulkhead on the forecastle and half deck of a ship...
Half deck
A shell of the genus Crepidula a boat shell See Boat shell...
Quarter deck
That part of the upper deck abaft the mainmast including the poop deck when there is one...
Half life
the time it takes for one half of a substance decaying in a first order reaction to be destroyed For radioactive substances it is the time required for one half of the initial amount of the radioactive isotope to decay The half lifeis a measure of the rate of the reaction being observed For processes that are true first order processes such as radioactive decay the half life is independent of the quantity of material present and it is thus a constant The time it takes for one half the remaining quantity of a radioactive isotope to decay will be the same regardless of how far the decay process has advanced Some chemical reactions are also first order and may be characterized as having a half life However for chemical reactions the half life will depend upon temperature and in some cases other environmental conditions whereas for radioactive isotopes the rate of decay is largely independent of the environment...
Deck chair
a folding chair usually having arms and a full length leg rest used for relaxing on the deck of a ship at poolside etc Also called steamer chair...
main deck
The uppermost sheltered deck that runs the entire length of a large vessel...
Half
Consisting of a moiety or half as a half bushel a half hour a half dollar a half view...
Half blood
Half blood, means two persons one said to be related to each other by full blood when they are descended from a common ancestor by the same wife and by half blood when they are descended from a common ancestor but by different wives. [Hindu Succession Act, 1956 (30 of 1956), s. 3(e); Special Marriage Act, 1954, s. 2(b)]The relationship through one only and not through both of the parents or other ancestors. By the old law a relative of the half-blood could not inherit real estate, but this was altered by the Inheritance Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 106). In the succession to personal estate there was no distinction between the whole and the half-blood until 1926, when the Admin. Of Estates Act, 1925, ss. 46 & 47, enacted that the half-blood are only entitled to the distribution of an intestate estate on the total absence of the whole blood in equal degree; see FRATER FRATRI, etc.The relationship existing between persons having the same mother or father, but not both parents in common, Bl...
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