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Conservators of the truce and safe conducts
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
Piracy
taken away, unless by the judgment of his peers, the still unrepealed Offences at Sea Act, 1536 (28 Hen. 8, c. 15), established a new jurisdiction for this purpose, which proceeds according to the course of the … Piracy [fr. pirata, Lat.], the commission of those acts of robbery and violence upon the sea, which if committed upon land wold amount to felony. Pirates hold no commission or delegated authority from any
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Clam
those that are edible as the long clam Mya arenaria the quahog or round clam Venus mercenaria the sea clam or hen clam Spisula solidissima and other species of the United States The name is said to
Dole-fish
Dole-fish, the share of fish which the fishermen employed in the north seas customarily received for their allowance, 35 Hen. 8, c. 7, rep. By Stat. (English) Law Rev. Act, 1863.
Maritima angli'
Maritima angli', the profits and emoluments arising to the Crown from the sea, which anciently were collected by sheriffs; but they were afterwards granted to the Lord High Admiral, Par. 8 … which anciently were collected by sheriffs; but they were afterwards granted to the Lord High Admiral, Par. 8 Hen. 3, m. 4.
Sewer
the discretion of the Lord Chancellor, Lord Treasurer, and Chief Justices, pursuant to the Statute of Sewers (23 Hen. 8, c. 5). Their jurisdiction is to overlook the repairs of the banks and walls of the sea-coast … sewage flows. The Court of Commissioners of Sewers is a temporary tribunal, erected by commission under the Great Seal, which used to be granted pro re nata at the pleasure of the Crown, and later at the
Apportionment
title paramount, or where part of the demised premises became lost to the tenant by irruption of the sea, also by act of parties, e.g., upon surrender, release, grant or devise of part of demised land. The … 10 QBD 48. Covenants if implied by law were apportionable but express covenants were not, until the 32 Hen. 8, c. 34, see Twynam v. Pickard, 2 B&Ald 105, and Swansea Corporation v. Thomas ubi supra. Conditions
Letters of marque
Letters of marque, commissions for extraordinary reprisals for reparation to merchants taken and despoiled by strangers at sea, grantable by the Secretaries of State, with the approbation of the Sovereign and Council; and usually in time … when reprisals may be made, else every private sufferer would be a judge in his own cause, 4 Hen. 5, c. 7; Muratori's Antichita Italiane, tit. 'Roppresaglie'; Malvezzi's Chron. of Brescia. But the term itself is now
King
ecclesiastical jurisdiction by virtue of s. 8 of the Elizabethan Act of Supremacy, 1 Eliz. c. 1 (though Henry VIII.'s Act of Supremacy, 26 Hen. 8, c. 1, declaring Henry to be supreme head on earth of … of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India, derives his title from the Act of Settlement of 1700
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