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Four seas. These are (1) The Atlantic, which comprises the Irish Sea and St. George's Channel; (2) The North Sea; (3) The German Ocean; and (4) The English Channel. See Woolrych on Waters. Before the reign of James the First, the four seas were understood with more restriction, the Scotch seas being excluded. The expression 'within the four seas,' 'intra quatuor maria,' means 'within the kingdome of England, and the dominions of the same kingdome.'-Co. Litt. 107 a....
Sea
One of the larger bodies of salt water less than an ocean found on the earths surface a body of salt water of second rank generally forming part of or connecting with an ocean or a larger sea as the Mediterranean Sea the Sea of Marmora the North Sea the Carribean Sea...
Perils of the sea
Perils of the sea, means perils, dangers and accidents of the sea or other navigable waters is an expression meaning perils, or accidents peculiar to sea or navigable waters, which could not have been reasonably foreseen and guarded against by ordinary skill and prudence by carrier or his agents or servants, Collis Line Pvt. Ltd. v. New India Assurance Co. Ltd., AIR 1982 Ker 127.They are strictly the natural accidents peculiar to the water, but the law has extended this phrase to comprehend events not attributable to natural causes, as captures by pirates, and losses by collision, where no blame is attachable to either ship, or at all events to the injured ship. It was held by the House of Lords in Hamilton, Fraser & Co. v. Pandorf & Co., (1887) 12 App Cas 518, that, where (under a charter-party or bills of lading which excepted dangers and accidents of the seas'), rats gnawed a hole in a pipe on board ship, whereby sea-water escaped and damaged a cargo of rice, without neglect or defa...
Deep sea
Of or pertaining to the deeper parts of the sea as a deep sea line i e a line to take soundings at a great depth deep sea lead deep sea soundings explorations etc...
Sea
Sea. See FOUR SEAS. The main or high seas are part of the realm of England, for thereon the Courts of Admiralty have jurisdiction, but they are not subject to the Common Law. The main sea begins at the low-watermark, but between the high-water mark and the low-water mark, where the sea ebbs and flows, the Common Law and Admiralty have, divisum imperium, an alternate jurisdiction, the one upon the water when it is full sea, the other upon the land when it is an ebb. See FORESHORE.The jurisdiction of the Admiralty within three miles of the low-water mark will be found elaborately discussed in Reg. v. Keyn, (1876) 2 Ex D 63. In that case it was held by a majority of seven judges to six that the Central Criminal Court had no jurisdiction to try for manslaughter the foreign captain of a foreign ship--the Franconia--which, in passing within three miles of the British shore, ran into a British ship and sank her; but this state of the law was soon afterwards altered by the (English) Territoria...
Sea-letter, or Sea-brief
Sea-letter, or Sea-brief, a document expected to be found on board of every neutral ship. It specifies the nature and quantity of the cargo, the place whence it comes, and its destination. See Arnould on Mar. Ins....
South Sea Fund
South Sea Fund, the produce of the taxes appropri-ated to pay the interest of such part of the National Debt as was advanced by the South Sea Company and its annuitants. The holders of South Sea Annuities have been paid off, or have received other stock in lieu thereof, 2 Steph. Com., 7th Edn. 578...
Arm of the sea
Arm of the sea, means the portion of a river or bay in which the tide ebbs and flows. It may extend as far into the interior as the water of the river is ropelled backward by the tide, Black Law Dictionary 7th Edn., p. 103.Arm of the sea, a bay, road, creek, cove, port, or river, where the water, whether salt of fresh, ebbs and flows, 5 Rep. 107. In Coulbert v. Troke, (1875) 1 QBD 1, it was held that the three-mile distance from the place of lodging which qualified a person to be a bona fide traveller within the meaning of s. 9 of the Licensing Act, 1874, was rightly calculated across an arm of the sea across which there was a public ferry....
Sea lion
Any one of several large species of seals of the family Otariidaelig native of the Pacific Ocean especially the southern sea lion Otaria jubata of the South American coast the northern sea lion Eumetopias Stelleri found from California to Japan and the black or California sea lion Zalophus Californianus which is common on the rocks near San Francisco...
Sea god
A marine deity a fabulous being supposed to live in or have dominion over the sea or some particular sea or part of the sea as Neptune...
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