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Load-line, a line painted on the sides of a ship to show how far up the sides the water will rise when the ship is loaded. The (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1890 (53 & 54 Vict. c. 9), substituted a 'maximum load-line in salt water, to which it should be lawful to load a ship,' i.e., a compulsory load-line, for a load-line indicating a point beyond which the owner intended that it should not be loaded, as prescribed by the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1876, i.e., an optional load-line; and this provision of the Act of 1890 was re-enacted by s. 437 of the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, and see also s. 8 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1906. Both these sections have now been repealed by the (English) Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act, 1932 (22 Geo. 5, c. 9), and ss. 43 to 46 now prescribed the law.Under the (English) M.S. Act, 1894, s. 442, sub-mergence beyond the load-line by reason of weather was held to be an offence, Radcliffe v. Brickwell, (1927) 2...
no-load
no-load : charging no sales commission [a mutual fund] compare load no-load n ...
load
load : an amount added (as to the price of a security or the net premium in insurance) to represent selling expense and profit to the distributor compare no-load ...
Load
A burden that which is laid on or put in anything for conveyance that which is borne or sustained a weight as a heavy load...
load bearing
Supporting a load10 from parts of a structure above as a load bearing wall...
loaded
containing as much or as many as is possible of containers vehicles trays etc as a tray loaded with dishes...
Loading
The act of putting a load on or into...
loads
A large quantity a lot as loads of fun...
Muzzle loading
Receiving its charge through the muzzle as a muzzle loading rifle...
Grain, loading of
Grain, loading of. As to the regulations with regard to this, see, s. 452 of the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60), and s. 11 of the amending Act of 1906 (6 Edw. 7, c. 48). Grain for the purpose of these Acts means and corn, rice, paddy, pulse, seeds, nuts, or nut kernels...
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