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Sea snake
Any one of many species of venomous aquatic snakes of the family Hydrophidaelig having a flattened tail and living entirely in the sea especially in the warmer parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans They feed upon fishes and are mostly of moderate size but some species become eight or ten feet long and four inches broad...
Hydrophid
Any sea snake of the genus Hydrophys and allied genera These snakes are venomous live upon fishes and have a flattened tail for swimming...
harlequin snake
any of several venomous New World snakes brilliantly banded in red and black and either yellow or white especially the eastern coral snake a small poisonous snake Micrurus fulvius or Elaps fulvius ringed with red and black found in the Southeastern United States They are widely distributed in Southern and Central America...
Proteroglypha
A suborder of serpents including those that have permanently erect grooved poison fangs with ordinary teeth behind them in the jaws It includes the cobras the asps and the sea snakes Called also Proteroglyphia...
Black snake
A snake of a black color of which two species are common in the United States the Bascanium constrictor or racer sometimes six feet long and the Scotophis Alleghaniensis seven or eight feet long...
Coachwhip snake
A large slender harmless snake of the southern United States Masticophis flagelliformis...
Snakes head
The Guinea hen flower so called in England because its spotted petals resemble the scales of a snakes head...
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...
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