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Home Dictionary Name: safe harborsafe harbor
safe harbor : something (as a statutory or regulatory provision) that provides protection (as from a penalty or liability) [had no safe harbor from prosecution] ...
harbor
harbor : a place of security and comfort see also safe harbor vt 1 : to receive secretly and conceal (a fugitive from justice) 2 : to have (an animal) in one's keeping [may not a dog without a permit] har·bor·er n ...
Safe
Free from harm injury or risk untouched or unthreatened by danger or injury unharmed unhurt secure whole as safe from disease safe from storms safe from foes...
Conservators of the truce and safe conducts
Conservators of the truce and safe conducts, officers appointed to hear and determine questions relating to the breaking of the king's truce and safe conducts upon the main sea, out of the liberties of the Cinque Ports. It was enacted by 18 Hen. 6, c. 4, that if any of the king's subjects attempt or offend upon the sea, or in any port within the king's obeisance, against any stranger in amity, league, or truce, or under safe conduct, and especially by attacking his person, or spoiling him, or robbing him of his goods, the Lord Chancellor, with any of the justices of either the King's Bench or Common Pleas, should cause full restitution and amends to be made to the party injured, Jac. Law Dict....
safe haven
safe haven Temporary refuge given to migrants who have fled their countries of origin to seek protection or relief from persecution or other hardships, until they can return to their countries safely or, if necessary until they can obtain permanent relief from the conditions they fled. Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ...
Safeness
The quality or state of being safe freedom from hazard danger harm or loss safety security as the safeness of an experiment of a journey or of a possession...
Letters of safe-conduct
Letters of safe-conduct. No subject of a nation at war with us can, by the law of nations, come into the realm, nor can travel himself upon the high seas, or send his goods and merchandise from one place to another, without danger of being seized by our subjects, unless he has letters of safe-conduct, which, by drivers old statutes, must be granted under the Great Seal, and enrolled in Chancery, or else are of no effect-the sovereign being the best judge of such emergencies as may deserve exemption from the general law of arms, Chitty's Prerogatives of the Crown, p. 48, and Vattel by Chit. 416. But passports or licences from our ambassadors abroad are now more usually obtained, and are allowed to be of equal validity; see ALIEN ENEMY.Where the court has made an order for attachment or forfeiture of any property under sub-sec. (1), and such property is suspected to be in a contracting State, the court may issue a letter of request to a court or an authority in the contracting State for ...
Safe-conduct
Safe-conduct, (1) convoy; guard through an enemy's country; (2) a document allowing such a journey. It is a prerogative of the Crown to grant safe-conducts.A privilege granted by a be belligerent allowing an enemy, a neutral or some other person to travel within or through a designated area for a specified purpose, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1336....
Subject to safe arrival
Subject to safe arrival, is similar to that of an exception clause which a seller must bring himself within in order to excuse non-delivery and in order to do that he must ship the goods and then show that he has not delivered them in consequence of their not having arrived safely, Barnet v. Taveri & Co., (1916) 2 KB 390....
longshore and harbor workers' compensation act
longshore and harbor workers' compensation act The federal act designed to provide workers' compensation benefits to employees, other than seamen, who work in maritime employment upon the navigable waters of the United States. (33 U.S.C.A. Sec. 901) Source: FindLaw ...
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