Open Sea

VerbarMare clausum

Lit closed sea hence a body of water within the separate jurisdiction of the nation opposed to open sea mare liberum the water open to all nations and over which no single nation has special control...

A sea open to all nations See Mare clausum...

Seaboat

A boat or vessel adapted to the open sea hence a vessel considered with reference to her power of resisting a storm or maintaining herself in a heavy sea as a good sea boat...

Pirate

A robber on the high seas one who by open violence takes the property of another on the high seas especially one who makes it his business to cruise for robbery or plunder a freebooter on the seas also one who steals in a harbor...

Free swimming

Swimming in the open sea said of certain marine animals...

VerbarGlaucus

A genus of nudibranchiate mollusks found in the warmer latitudes swimming in the open sea These mollusks are beautifully colored with blue and silvery white...

Polynia

The open sea supposed to surround the north pole...

Indraught

An opening from the sea into the land an inlet...

Sea clam

Any one of the large bivalve mollusks found on the open seacoast especially those of the family Mactridaelig as the common American species Mactra solidissima or Spisula solidissima called also beach clam and surf clam...

Insurance

Insurance, see, Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), s. 80C, Expl. 1.Insurance, the act of providing against a possible loss, by entering into a contract with one who is willing to give assurance, that is, to bind himself to make good such loss should it occur. In this contract, the chances of benefit are equal to the insured and the insurer. The first actually pays a certain sum, and the latter undertakes to pay a larger, if an accident should happen. The one renders his property secure; the other receives money with the probability that it is clear gain. The instrument by which the contract is made is called a policy; the stipulated consideration, a premium. As to what is known as a coupon policy, i.e., a coupon cut out of a diary, etc., see General Accident, etc., Assce. Corpn. v. Robertson, 1909 AC 404.Insurable Interest must be possessed by the person taking out a policy; he must be so circumstanced as to have benefit from the existence of the person or thing insured, and some preju...

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