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Home Dictionary Name: neutral Page: 3Declaration of London, 1909
Declaration of London, 1909. A suggested International agreement to settle doubts concerning inter alia the application of the doctrines of contraband, neutral destination and continuous voyage. A list of three classes of goods was made: (1) absolute contraband or munitions of war; (2) conditionally contraband, or foodstuffs, forage, money, railway materials, fuel, lubricants, barbed wire and optical instruments; (3) not contraband, or any raw textile materials, rubber, hides, metallic ores, earths. Eleven countries signed the convention. With a prescience justified by the developments of science and the uncontrollable nature of a desperate war, the House of Lords refused to ratify it. In practice the declaration was followed by Great Britain and other belligerents with increasing alterations until it was formally, and finally abandoned by this country in April, 1916. A modified list of Articles absolutely or conditionally contraband was issued shortly after. See Hall or Lawrence on In...
Sea-letter, or Sea-brief
Sea-letter, or Sea-brief, a document expected to be found on board of every neutral ship. It specifies the nature and quantity of the cargo, the place whence it comes, and its destination. See Arnould on Mar. Ins....
Impasse
Impasse, means a point in labour negotiations at which agreement cannot be reached. A neutral third party (Such as a mediator) is often called in to help resolve an impasse, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 755....
Indian hemp
Indian hemp, means--(i) the leaves, small stalks and flowering or fruiting tops of the Indian hemp plant (Cannabis sativa L.) including all forms known as bhang, siddhi or ganja.(ii) charas, that is, the resin obtained from the Indian hemp plant, which has not been submitted to any manipulations other than those necessary for pack-ing and transport.(iii) any mixture, with or without neutral materials, of any of the above forms of Indian hemp or any drink prepared there from.(iv) any extract or tincture of any of the above forms of Indian hemp. [Medicinal and Toilet Preparations (Excise Duties) Act, 1955 (16 of 1955), s. 2 (e)]...
Jus belli
Jus belli, meant law of war. The law of nations as applied during wartime, defining in particular the right and duties of the belligerent powers and of neutral nations. Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 863....
Khudkhast
Khudkhast, the word 'Khudkasht' means personal cultivation, and that is a neutral expression, which might include both private lands and bakasht lands, that is to say, raiyati lands, which had come into the possession of the proprietor by surrender, abandonment or otherwise, Harihar Prasad Singh v. Deonarain Prasad, AIR 1956 SC 305 (308). (Bihar Tenancy Act, 1885, s. 116. According to s. 3(9) of the U.P. Tenancy Act, Khudkasht means any land other than sir, activated by a Zamindar either by himself or by servants or by hired labour....
Opium derivative
Opium derivative, means:(a) medicinal opium, that is, opium which has undergone the processes necessary to adopt it for medicinal use in accordance with the requirements of the Indian Pharmacopoeia or any other pharmacopoeia notified in this behalf by the Central Government, whether in powder form or granulated or otherwise or mixed with neutral material;(b) prepared opium, that is, any product of opium obtained by any series of operations designed to transform opium into an extract suitable for smoking and the dross or other residue remaining after opium is smoked;(c) phenanthrene alkaloids, namely, morphine, codeine, thebaine and their salts;(d) diacetylmorphine, that is, the alkaloid also known as diamorphine or heroin and its salts; and(e) all preparations containing more than 0.2 per cent of morphine or containing any diacetyl morphine. [Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, s. 2(xvi)]...
Safe-conduct
Safe-conduct, (1) convoy; guard through an enemy's country; (2) a document allowing such a journey. It is a prerogative of the Crown to grant safe-conducts.A privilege granted by a be belligerent allowing an enemy, a neutral or some other person to travel within or through a designated area for a specified purpose, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1336....
Petrolatum
A semisolid unctuous substance neutral and without taste or odor derived from petroleum by distilling off the lighter portions and purifying the residue It is a yellowish fatlike mass transparent in thin layers and somewhat fluorescent It is used as a bland protective dressing and as a substitute for fatty materials in ointments...
Ship's papers
Ship's papers, documents required for the manifes-tation of the property of the ship and cargo, etc. See a list of them in Form No. 17, Appx. K, of the Rules of the Supreme Court, 1883.They are of two sorts: (1) those required by the law of a particular country, as the certificate of registry, licence, charter-party, bills of lading and of health, required by the law of England to be onboard all British ships; (2) those required by the law of nations to be onboard neutral ships, to vindicate their title to that character; they are the passport, sea-brief, or sea-letter, proofs of property, the muster-roll, or role d'equipage; the charter-party, the bills of lading and invoices, the log-book or ship's journal, and the bill of health, 1 Marshall on Insur., c. 9, s. 6....
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