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Piracy
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
Magna Carta
freeman of our realm, for us and our heirs for ever, these liberties, underwritten, to have and to hold to them and their heirs, of us and our heirs for ever.' The 2nd chapter relates to the … year of his reign. After the adjustment of preliminaries, Articles or heads of agreement were drawn up and sealed; these Articles were then reduced to the form of a charter to which the Great Seal of the
Admiralty
and is called the First Lord. He is a member of the Cabinet and is assisted by four Sea Lords, now always selected from Officers of the Service, two Civil Lords and a Secretary. Means a court … and Administration of Justice Act, 1928 (18 & 19 Geo. 5, c. 49), s. 58. The Judge now holds his appointment of the Crown as a Judge of the High Court of Justice. The jurisdiction of the
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Improvement of land
a number of 'im-provements' such as the following: (1) Drainage; (2) Irrigation and Warping; (3) Embanking from the sea, etc.; (4) Inclosing, and redivision of fields; (5) Reclamation; (6) Making roads, tramways, railways, and canals; (7) Clearing; … Court or trustees so determine), Part III. (replaceable by instalments in any case), and see also (English) Agricultural Holdings Act, 1st Schd., Parts I. and II. See also (English) Universities and College Estates Act, 1925 (15 &
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 … the right to give a counter notice as to the rest of the land demised. As to agricultural holdings, see (English) L. P. Amendment Act, 1926. The (English) Lands Clauses Act, 1845, as. 119, provides for an
Wreck
tit. 'Shipping'; Part XII., 'Wreck,'), as, after a shipwreck, are afloat or cast upon the land by the sea. According to an old definition (Jacob's Law Dict., tit. 'Wreck') they were not wrecks so long as they … Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, the Lord Chancellor has power to appoint not more than three wreck commissioners to hold formal investigations into shipping casualties under ss. 464 et seq. (Part VI.) of the Act. Preliminary inquiries may
Cause of action
fraud, breach of trust, wilful default or undue influence, Liverpool & London S.P. & I Assocn. v. M.V. Sea Success, (2004) 9 SCC 512 (562). [Civil Procedure Code, 1908, O. 7, R. 11(9)] --It is only that … decreed and the decree-holder gets possession and thereafter there is a fresh dispossession there is no difficulty in holding that a fresh suit is maintainable for ejectment, because the fresh trespass creates a fresh cause of action,
Agistment
it. Agistment does not include a right of lien, Chapman v. Allen, 1631 Cro Car 271. Agistment of sea banks [terr' agitat', Lat.] is where lands are charged with a tribute to keep out the sea. … (in some parts of the country called 'tacks') for rent is imposed by s. 35 of the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923. See also Manwood's Forest Laws, cc. 11-80, where to 'agist' is to take in and feed
Bribe
commission from the other side to a negotiation justifies the dismissal of the agent receiving it, Boston Deep Sea Fishery v. Ansell, (1888) 39 Ch D 339. The bribery of an agent avoids a contract: see Shipway … Bribe, a fit to any person in office or holding a position of trust, with the object of inducing him to disregard his official duty or betray his
Carrier
(8 & 9 Vict. c. 4). The Act extends to carriage by land only; as to carriage by sea, or partly by land and partly by sea, see SHIPOWNER. See Macnamara on Carriers; Chitty on Contracts; CARRIAGE … exercise it as a public employment; he must undertake to carry goods for persons generally; and he must hold himself out as ready to transport goods for hire, as a business, not as a casual occupation, pro
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