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Toll

'toll' includes 'any rate or other payment payable under the special Act for any passenger, animal, carriage, goods, merchandise, articles, matters or things conveyed on the railway.' See Railway and Hunt v. Great Northern Railway Co., (1851)

Policy of group insurance

inland navigation), or upon the machinery, tackle or furniture of any ship or vessel, or person, any goods, merchandise or property of any description whatever on board of any ship or vessel, or upon the freight of,

Joint-tenancy

trustee of the legal estate for the personal representatives of the deceased partner as to his share. Wares, merchandise, and stock in trade belonging to partners, survive to the representatives of the deceased partner. The lex mercatoria

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Market or bazar

assemble for the sale of meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, live stock or any other article of food or merchandise, declared and licensed by the municipality as a market. [Manipur Municipalities Act, 1994 (43 of 1994), s. 2(32)]

Marine insurance business

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

Magna Carta

fault after the greatness thereof, saving to him his contenement; and a merchant likewise, saving to him his merchandise; and any other's villein than ours shall be likewise amerced, saving his wainage, if he fall into our

Letters of safe-conduct

nations, come into the realm, nor can travel himself upon the high seas, or send his goods and merchandise from one place to another, without danger of being seized by our subjects, unless he has letters of

Land-waiter

Land-waiter, denotes an officer of the custom-house, whose duty is, upon landing any merchandise, to examine, taste, weigh, or measure it, and to take an account thereof. In some ports they also

Land waiter

Land waiter, means a customhouse officer with the responsibility of examining, tasting, weighing, measuring and accounting for merchandise landing at any port. Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 884.

Jus stapulae

Jus stapulae, means 'right of staple'. A town's right or privilege of stopping imported merchandise and forcing it to be offered for sale in its own market. Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p.

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