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Home Dictionary Name: marineMarine-store dealers
Marine-store dealers. See (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (57 & 58Vict. c. 60), ss. 533-540, re-enacting (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1854 (17 & 18 Vict. c. 104), ss. 480-483; by which any dealer in 'anchors, cables, sails, old junk, old iron, or other marine stores of any kind, must have his name, with the words ' dealer in marine stores,' painted on all his warehouses and places of deposit, must not purchase marine stores from any person apparently under sixteen, must enter in a book all such marine stores as he may become possessed of, and may not cut up cables, etc., without obtaining a ' permit ' from a justice of the peace, which permit must be advertised before the dealer proceeds to act thereon.' A person as so defined is, by the (English) Children Act, 1933 (see CHILDREN), prohibited by s. 9 from purchasing 'old metal' from a person under 16. See also (English) Public Health Amendment Act, 1907, s. 86. See METALS, DEALERS IN OLD....
Mercantile Marine Fund
Mercantile Marine Fund, a fund consisting, under ss. 676-679 of the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, of the fees paid on survey and measurement of ships, money arising from unclaimed property of deceased seamen, fees received by receivers of wreck, light dues, etc., etc., and applicable to the payment of salaries of mercantile marine officers, etc., under the Act. The 'General Lighthouse Fund' is substituted for the Mercantile Marine Fund by the (English) Merchant Shipping (Mercantile Marine Fund) Act, 1898 (61 & 62 Vict. c. 44)....
inland marine insurance
inland marine insurance : insurance against loss of or damage to property transported in domestic commerce, instrumentalities of transport and communication, and personal property compare marine insurance, ocean marine insurance ...
marine insurance
marine insurance : insurance against loss by damage to or destruction of cargo or the means or instruments of its transportation whether on land, sea, or air see also inland marine insurance, ocean marine insurance ...
ocean marine insurance
ocean marine insurance : insurance against risks incident to transportation by sea compare inland marine insurance, marine insurance ...
Marine
Of or pertaining to the sea having to do with the ocean or with navigation or naval affairs nautical as marine productions or bodies marine shells a marine engine...
Marine
Marine, a general name for the navy of a kingdom or state; as also the whole economy of naval affairs, or whatever respects the building, rigging, arming, equipping, navigating, and fighting of ships. It comprehends also the government of naval armaments, and the state of all the persons employed therein, whether civil or military. Also one of the marines. See MARINES....
Contract of marine insurance
Contract of marine insurance, may, by its express terms or by trade usage, be extended so as to protect the assured against losses on inland waters or against any land risk which may be incidental to a sea voyage, and it may also cover a ship in the course of building, or the launch of a ship, or any adventure analogous to a marine adventure, Jackson v. Mumford, (1904) 9 Com Cas 114....
Marine adventure
Marine adventure, includes any adventure where-(i) any insurable property is exposed to maritime perils; (ii) the earnings or acquisition of any freight, passage money, commission, profit or other pecuniary benefit, or the security for any advances, loans, or disbursements is endangered by the exposure of insurable property to maritime perils; (iii) any liability to a third party may be incurred by the owner of, or other person interested in or responsible for, insurable property by reason of maritime perils. [Marine Insurance Act, 1963 (11 of 1963), s. 2(d)]...
Marine insurance business
Marine insurance business, means the business of effecting contracts of insurance upon vessels of any description, including cargoes, freights and other interests which may be legally insured, in or in relation to such vessels, cargoes and freights, goods, wares, merchandise and property of whatever description insured for any transit by land or water, or both, and whether or not including warehouse risks or similar risks in addition or as incidental to such transit, and includes any other risks customarily included among the risks insured against in marine insurance policies. [Insurance Act, 1938 (4 of 1938), s. 2(13A)]...
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