Pirate - Law Dictionary Search Results

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A buccaneer an American pirate See Filibuster

Famous

chiefly the former often followed by for as famous for erudition for eloquence for military skill a famous pirate

Buccaneer

A robber upon the sea a pirate a term applied especially to the piratical adventurers who made depredations on the Spaniards in America in the

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bootleg

boot·legged boot·leg·ging vt 1 : to produce, reproduce, or distribute without authorization or license 2 : smuggle compare pirate vi : to engage in bootlegging boot·leg·ger n

Danegelt, Danegeld, or Danegold

through the realm, levied by the Anglo-Saxons for maintaining forces sufficient to clear the British seas of Danish pirates, who greatly annoyed our coasts. It continued a tax until the time of Stephen, and was one of

Salvage

to those by whose exertions ships or goods have been saved from the dangers of the seas, fire, pirates, or enemies. This was allowed by the laws of Rhodes, Oleron, and Wisby, and is also allowed by

Perils of the sea

but the law has extended this phrase to comprehend events not attributable to natural causes, as captures by pirates, and losses by collision, where no blame is attachable to either ship, or at all events to the

Maritime perils

incidental to, the navigation of the sea, that is to say, perils of the seas, fire, war perils, pirates, rovers, thieves, captures, seizures, restraints and detainments of princes and peoples, jettisons, barratry and any other perils which

Droits of admiralty

see PRIZE. The Admiralty jurisdiction in the High Court, however, extends to trover property and ships recaptured from pirates, (English) Judic. Act, 1925, s. 22

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