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Seaman

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Able-bodied seaman

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beachcomber

A vagrant seaman usually of low character who loiters about seaports particularly on the shores and islands of the Pacific Ocean

Shipman

A seaman or sailor

Advance note

note. A draft on the owners of a ship or their agents issued by the captain to a seaman for a sum not exceeding a month's wages payable to the seaman's order after the sailing of the

A.B

A.B. Able-bodied seaman, having served at sea for three years before the mast, (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (57&58 Vict, e.

Wages

of Summary Jurisdiction are given jurisdiction to try cases where wages not exceeding 50l. are claimed by a seaman (Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, s. 164). See also title MASTER AND SERVANT; PREFERENTIAL PAYMENTS; TRUCK ACTS. It includes

Seamen

Act also (s. 168) gives power to a Court to rescind a contract between owner or master, and seaman or apprentice, where a proceeding is instituted in the Court in relation to a dispute between them, protects

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