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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 … shall be guilty of felony, and being convicted thereof shall suffer death as a felon. If sentence is passed under this section a public execution will have to take place, as the section is not within the
King
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 … 4, enacting, subject to the provisions of the Act, that no Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom passed after the 11th December, 1931, shall extend to a dominion as part of the law of that dominion
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 … tenant for life, and the person succeeding in remainder, and by 4 & 5 Wm. 4, c. 22, passed to obviate doubts which had arisen upon the earlier Act. The (English) 'Apportionment Act, 1870' (33 & 34
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marine mine
Its function is to destroy enemy ships or deny hostile naval forces access to certain areas of the sea usually near the shoreline Also called underwater mine and floating mine and previously referred to as a torpedo … to be placed on or under the surface of a body of water and to explode when ships pass nearby or come in contact with it Its function is to destroy enemy ships or deny hostile naval
Entry
as the entry of a person into a house or city the entry of a river into the sea the entry of air into the blood an entry upon an undertaking … The act of entering or passing into or upon entrance ingress hence beginnings or first attempts as the entry of a person into a
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