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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
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
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Dane-lage
maintained in the Midland counties and the eastern coats (the parts most exposed to the visits of that piratical people) while the Danes had sway in this country, 1 Bl. Com. 65.
Copyright
and the (English) Musical Copyright Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7, c. 36), authorizing the seizure and destruction of pirated copies, are left unrepealed; and so are s. 7 and (with slight alteration) s. 8 of the (English)
Bounty
OF QUEEN ANNE. (3) Money paid to officers and crew of a king's ship which had successfully engaged pirates, slave traders, etc. (4) King's Bounty: the grant made by the Crown on the birth of three or
Buccaneerish
Like a buccaneer piratical
Rover
One who practices robbery on the seas a pirate
Rapacity
The quality of being rapacious rapaciousness ravenousness as the rapacity of pirates the rapacity of wolves
Piracy
The act or crime of a pirate
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