Sailor

Sailor, means a person undergoing training as an artificer apprentice not being an officer and receiving fixed pay regularly after administration of oath is treated as 'sailor', Anuj Kumar Dey v. Union of India, (1997) SCC (L&S) 153....

Navy and Marines (Wills) Acts, 1865, 1897, and 1914, and Wills (Soldiers and Sailors) Act, 1918 (English)

Navy and Marines (Wills) Acts, 1865, 1897, and 1914, and Wills (Soldiers and Sailors) Act, 1918 (English). See NUNCUPATIVE WILL....

Army (UK)

Army (UK) [fr. armee, Fr.], the military force of a country. From1689 to 1879, the army was regulated by Annual Mutiny Acts usually expiring in April, and by the 'Articles of War' which those Acts empowered the sovereign to make. In 1879 the Army Discipline Act (42 & 43 Vict. c. 33) consolidated the provisions of the Mutiny Act with the Articles of War. This Act having been amended by the Army Discipline and Regulation Annual Act, 1881, which substituted 'summary' for corporal punishment, and also by the Regulation of the Forces Act, 1881, a fairly complete military code is now contained in the 'Army Act, 1881' (44 & 45 Vict. c. 58), now styled the 'Army Act' simply, by virtue of s. 4 of the Army (Annual) Act, 1890.The Army Act requires to be annually renewed by an Act passed for that purpose called the 'Army (Annual) Act.' Such annual Act follows the precedent of the Mutiny Acts is reciting the illegality of a standing army in time of peace without consent of Parliament (as declared b...

Ditty bag

A sailors small bag to hold thread needles tape etc also called sailors housewife...

Shipman

A seaman or sailor...

Bluecoat

One dressed in blue as a soldier a sailor a beadle etc...

Military testament

Military testament. By s. 11 of the (English) Wills Act, 1837, a soldier or sailor on active service may dispose of his personal estate as he might have done before that Act. The (English) Wills (Soldiers and Sailors) Act, 1918 (7 & 8 Geo. 5, c. 58), extends this right to make wills without formalities to realty in the case of the above persons. As t seamen and marines, see also the (English) Navy and Marines (Wills) Acts, 1865 (28 & 29 Vict. c. 72) and 1914. See NUNCUPATIVE WILL....

Member of Coast Guard

Member of Coast Guard, means an officer, a subordinate officer, a sailor or other enrolled person. [Coast Guard Act, 1988 (30 of 1978), s. 2(n)]...

Lascar

Lascar, a native Indian sailor; 'the term is also applied to tent-pitchers, inferior artillery-men, and others.'Wilson's Indian Glossary.Agreements by masters or owners of ships with lascars are regulated by s. 125 of the (English) Merchant Shipping Act,1894, reproducing s. 544 of the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, and saving nine unrepealed sections (ss. 25-34) of 4 Geo. 4, c. 80....

Shipmate

One who serves on board of the same ship with another a fellow sailor...

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