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Maritime perils

Maritime perils, means the perils, consequent on, or incidental to, the navigation of the sea, that is to say, perils of the seas, fire, war perils, pirates, rovers, thieves, captures,

Terminal

where the cargo and passengers change from one mode to other mode of transportation [National Waterway, Safety of Navigation and Shipping Regulations, 2002, R. 2(r)] Means the point at which motion or action ends; goal; end; finishing

Wreck

1877 (40 & 41 Vict. c. 16), gave power to harbour and conser-vancy authorities to remove wrecks obstructing navigation; an amending (English) Act of 1889 (52 Vict. c. 5) extended the protection from obstruction to lifeboats engaged

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Wharf

68, and Port of London (Consolidation) Act, 1920 (10 Geo. 5, c. clxxiii.). A structure on shore of navigable waters, to which a vessel can be brought for loading or unloading, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p.

Wear, or Weir

fish, or to convey a stream to a mill. Prohibited by Magna Charta and other early statutes in navigable rivers, Lord Leconfield v. Earl of Lonsdale, (1870) LR 5 CP 657. Prohibited for the purpose of catching

Water and watercourse

on one side, and to his neighbour on the other, in which latter case (unless the stream be navigable, for then the bed of it, so far at least as the tide of the case flows, presumably

Warehouse to warehouse

and has nothing to do about the type of the risk policy covered, Bihar Supply Syndicate v. Asiatic Navigation, AIR 1993 SC 2054 (2060). [Marine Insurance Act, (11 of 1963), s. 31]

Truck Acts (1831 to 1896)

of damages awarded to an employer in an action is a violation of these Acts, Williams v. North's Navigation Collieries, 1906 AC 136.

Trinity masters

as assessors in Admiralty and Prize Courts to assist the judge in cases in which technical questions of navigation arise.

Trinity house

house, a society at Deptford Strond, incor-porated by Henry VIII. in 1515, for the promotion of commerce and navigation by licensing and regulating pilots, and ordering and erecting beacons, lighthouses, buoys, etc., and stated in the preamble

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