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Any one of several species of fish eating eagles of the genus Haliaeligetus and allied genera as the North Pacific sea eagle H pelagicus which has white shoulders head rump and tail the European white tailed eagle H albicilla and the Indian white tailed sea eagle or fishing eagle Polioaeumltus ichthyaeumltus The bald eagle and the osprey are also sometimes classed as sea eagles...
Eagle
Any large rapacious bird of the Falcon family esp of the genera Aquila and Haliaeligetus The eagle is remarkable for strength size graceful figure keenness of vision and extraordinary flight The most noted species are the golden eagle Aquila chrysaeumltus the imperial eagle of Europe Aquila mogilnik or Aquila imperialis the American bald eagle Haliaeligetus leucocephalus the European sea eagle Haliaeligetus albicilla and the great harpy eagle Thrasaetus harpyia The figure of the eagle as the king of birds is commonly used as an heraldic emblem and also for standards and emblematic devices See Bald eagle Harpy and Golden eagle...
Ern
A sea eagle esp the European white tailed sea eagle Haliaeligetus albicilla...
Eagle winged
Having the wings of an eagle swift or soaring high like an eagle...
Bald eagle
The white headed eagle Haliaeligetus leucocephalus of America The young until several years old lack the white feathers on the head...
Bold eagle
an Australian eagle Aquila audax which destroys lambs and even the kangaroo...
Eagle eyed
Sharp sighted as an eagle...
Four seas
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....
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...
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...
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