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Seamen
Seamen, persons engaged in navigating ships, barges, etc., upon the high seas. Those employed for this purpose upon rivers, lakes, or canals are denominated watermen.The (English) Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 and 1906 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60, and 6 Edw. 7, c. 48), contain numerous and elaborate provisions. In Part II. of the Act of 1894 there are regulations as to engagement and discharge of seamen, and payment of their wages. The Act also (s. 168) gives power to a Court to rescind a contract between owner or master, and seaman or apprentice, where a proceeding is instituted in the Court in relation to a dispute between them, protects (ss. 212-219) seamen from imposition, and (ss. 198-210) protects them in the matter of provisions, health, and accommodation. As to seamen's allotment notes, see (English) Merchant Shipping (Seamen's Allotment) Act, 1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 8). Part III. of the Act of 1906 deals with seamen's food, and Part IV. contains provisions for the relief and repatriati...
Registrar-General of shipping and seamen
Registrar-General of shipping and seamen. To secure the great object of affording general information from time to time as to the state of our mercantile marine, it is provided that there shall be in the Port of London a 'General Register and Record Office for Seamen,' under the management of this officer. See (English) Merchant ShippingAct, 1894, ss. 251 et seq....
Press
Press. By the (English) Local Authorities (Admission of the Press to Meetings) Act, 1908 (8 Edw. 7, c. 43), passed inconsequence of the decision in Tenby Corporation v. Mason, (1908) 1 Ch 457, the ex-pression 'representatives of the Press' means duly accredited representatives of newspapers and duly accredited representatives of news agencies which systematically carry on the business of selling and supplying reports and information to newspapers. Though the Act gives a general right of admission, there is power by resolution temporarily to exclude the Press. See LOCAL AUTHORITY.There is no longer any censorship of the Press in this country, and any man may write and publish whatever he pleases concerning another, subject only to this--that he must take the consequences, if a jury should deem his words defamatory (Odgers on Libel, p. 10). 'The liberty of the Press consists in printing without any previous licence, subject to the consequences of law', R. v. Dean of St. Asaph, (1784) 3 T...
Freedom of press
Freedom of press, means right of citizen to speak, publish and express their view as well as right or people to read, Bennett Coleman and Co. v. Union of India, (1972) 2 SCC 788. See also People's Union for Civil Liberties v. Union of India, (2003) 4 SCC 399.Freedom of press, Freedom of press as the petitioners rightly assert means freedom from interference from authority which would have the effect of interference with the content and circulation of newspapers, Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Private Ltd. v. Union of India, AIR 1986 SC 515: (1985) 1 SCC 641: (1985) 2 SCR 287.Is a freedom included in the fundamental right to the freedom of speech and expression, Express Newspapers v. Union of India, AIR 1958 SC 578.Is freedom of speech and of press lie at the foundation of all democratic organizations, Romesh Thapper v. State of Madras, 1950 SCR 594.In U.K., it is a part of the individual right of freedom of discussion, Commentary on the Constitution of India, Durga Das Basu, Vol. C...
University Press
University Press. At Oxford, the public press of the University is called the 'Clarendon Press'; at Cambridge, the 'Pitt Press.'...
Foreign seamen
Foreign seamen. As to apprehension of, for deser-tion, see (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, s. 238, re-enacting the (English) Foreign Deserters Act, 1852 (15 & 16 Vict. c. 26). See also the (English) Deserters from Foreign Ships Order, 1934, No. 893....
freedom of the press
freedom of the press :the right to publish and disseminate information, thoughts, and opinions without restraint or censorship as guaranteed under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution NOTE: The First Amendment's guarantees of freedom of speech and freedom of the press are closely intertwined, and many cases relating to freedom of the press are couched in terms of the freedom of speech. ...
hard pressed
facing or experiencing trouble or difficulty as financially hard pressed Mexican hotels are lowering their prices they were hard pressed to find a substitute on short notice see distressed1...
Cy-press Doctrine
Cy-press Doctrine, it applies where a charitable trust is initially impossible and the Court applies the property 'Cy-press' i.e. to some other charities as nearly as possible, resembling the original trust; N.S.R. Mudaliar v. M.S.V. Mudaliar, (1970) 1 SCC 12; R.P. Gandhi v. State, AIR 1954 SC 388; Abid v. Janab, (2000) 3 SCC 113....
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