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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....
Sheriff's Tourn or Rotation
Sheriff's Tourn or Rotation, a Court of record held twice every year, within a month after Easter and Michaelmas, before the sheriff, in different parts of the county, being indeed only the turn of the sheriff to keep a Court-leet in each respective hundred; this, therefore, was the great Court-leet of the county, as the county Court was the Court-baron; but the 'tourn,' which had been long obsolete, was expressly abolished by s. 18, sub-s. 4, of the Sheriffs Act, 1887....
Ship's agent
Ship's agent. The Naval Agency and Distribution Act, 1864, provides for the appointment of an agent by the commanding officer of each of His Majesty's ships to act for the ship with respect to salvage, bounty, prize, etc. (ss. 4-12). The ship's agent receives 2' per cent. of any such money distributed among the officers and crew. He may not be a solicitor, proctor, attorney, or employed by the Crown, and is subject to the jurisdiction and authority of the High Court of Admiralty. See also (English) Naval Prize Act, 1918 (8 & 9 Geo. 5, c. 30)....
Ship's husband
Ship's husband, a peculiar agent appointed by the owner of a ship to look after the repairs, equip-ment, management, and other concerns of the ship. His duties are: (1) To see to the proper outfit of the vessel, the repairs, tackle and furniture necessary for a seaworthy ship. (2) To have a proper master, mate, and crew for the ship, so that in this respect it shall be seaworthy. (3) To see to the due furnishing of provisions and stores. (4) To see to the regularity of clearance from the Custom-house of the registry. (5) To settle contracts, and provide for payment of the furnishings requisite. (6) To enter into charter-parties, or engage the vessel for general freight, under usual conditions; and to settle for freights and adjust averages with the merchant. (7) To preserve the proper certificates, surveys, and documents, in case of disputes with insures of freighters, and to keep regular books of the ship, Story's Agency, 31. See Maclachlan on Shipping. He must be registered under the...
Sturges Bourne's Acts
Sturges Bourne's Acts. (English) (1) 58 Geo. 3, c. 69, the Vestries Act, 1818 (Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Vestries'), as to notice of vestries, qualification for vestry meetings, etc. (repealed as to rural parishes by the Local Government Act, 1894), preservation of parish books and other matters; and (2) 59 Geo. 3, c. 12, the Poor Relief Act, 1819 (Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Poor'), by which the inhabitants of any parish, in vestry assembled, were enabled to commit the management of its poor to a committee of the parishioners appointed for that purpose and called a 'select vestry,' to whose orders the overseers were bound to conform (this portion of the Act, being superseded by the Poor Law Amendment Act, 1834, is repealed by the Statute Laws Revision Act, 1873). See now Poor Law Act, 1930, and POOR LAW....
Widow's Estate
Widow's Estate, is the result of the sastric law codified through judicial precedents. Thus the 'women's estate' in its larger connotation means: 'All property which has given to a woman by any means and from any source whatsoever and includes both properties in which she has absolute estate stridhana and property in which she has only a limited interest and the term is used in the context only later sense of property in which she takes only a limited or qualified interest. Such property is ether property inherited by woman, or property which has been allotted to her in a partition in her husband's family, Atava Akkulamma v. Gajjela Papi Reddy, AIR 1995 SC 166....
Women's modesty
Women's modesty, the essence of a woman's modesty is her sex. The modesty of an adult female is writ large on her body. Young or old, intelligent or imbecile, awake or sleeping, the woman possesses a modesty capable of being outraged. Whoever uses criminal force to her with intent to outrage her modesty commits an offence punishable under s. 354. The culpable intention of the accused is the crux of the matter. The reaction of the woman is very relevant, but its absence is not always decisive, as for example, when the accused with a corrupt mind stealthily touches the flesh of a sleeping woman. She may be an idiot, she may be under the spell of anaesthesia, she may be sleeping, she may be unable to appreciate the significance of the act: nevertheless, the offender is punishable under the section, State of Punjab v. Major Singh, AIR 1967 SC 63 (68): 1966 Supp SCR 286....
Marshal of the Queen's bench
Marshal of the Queen's bench, an officer who had the custody of the Queen's Bench Prison. The 5 & 6 Vict. c. 22 abolished this office, and substituted an officer called Keeper of the Queen's Prison....
New Year's Day
New Year's Day, the 1st of January. The 25th of March was the civil and legal New Year's Day till the alteration of the style in 1752, when it was permanently fixed as the 1st January.In Scotland the year was, by a proclamation which bears date 27th November, 1599, ordered thenceforth to commence in that kingdom on the 1st January instead of the 25th March. By the (English) Bank Holidays Act, 1871 (34 Vict. c. 17), New Year's Day is made a bank holiday in Scotland, and bills, etc., becoming due on that day are payable on the following day. See HOLIDAY....
Creditor's committee
Creditor's committee, means a general meeting of the bankrupt's creditors may, in accordance with the Insolvency Rules 1986, establish a committee ('the creditors' committee') to exercise the functions conferred on it by or under Insolvency Act, 1986 (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 3(2), para 316, p. 172....
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