Skip to content

Ship Money - Law Dictionary Search Results

Research workspace

Save terms and build your research trail

A free trial unlocks notes, tags, search history, and the full AI Studio desk for judgment research.

Ship-money

Matched in: Term Ship-money

Hat-money

Matched in: Term Hat-money

Wharfage

Wharfage, money paid for landing goods at a wharf, or for shipping and taking goods into a boat or barge thence. Raichand Amulakh Shah v. Union of India, AIR 1964

Keep your definitions linked to case research

Stowage

Stowage, money paid for a room where goods are laid; housage; the mode of lading a ship. See Stevens on Stowage.

Bottomry

his agent hypothecates and binds the ship and sometimes the accruing freight as security for the repayment of money advanced or lent for the use of the ship if she terminates her voyage successfully If the ship … A contract in the nature of a mortgage by which the owner of a ship or the master as his agent hypothecates and binds the ship and sometimes the accruing freight as security

Charter-party

for the carriage of goods on a specified voyage, or during a specified period, for a sum of money which the merchant agrees to pay as freight for their carriage. By such an agreement the ship is … parties; this they cut in two, and give each his portion; an agreement in writing by which a ship owners agrees to let an entire ship, or part thereof, to a merchant, for the carriage of goods

Bottomry Bond, or Contract, also Bottomree, or Bummaree

keel or bottom is pledged (partum pro toto) as a security for the repayment of a sum of money. If the ship be totally lost, the lender loses his money; but if she returns safely, he recovers … Bottomry Bond, or Contract, also Bottomree, or Bummaree, a species of mortgage or hypothecation of a ship, by which her keel or bottom is pledged (partum pro toto) as a security for the repayment of

Ship's agent

Matched in: Term Ship's agent

Mercantile Marine Fund

Mercantile Marine Fund, a fund consisting, under ss. 676-679 of the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, of the fees paid on survey and measurement of ships, money arising from unclaimed property of

bottomry

bottomry [alteration of earlier bottomary, modification of Dutch bodemerij, from bodem bottom, hull, ship] : a contract under which the owner of a ship pledges the ship as collateral for a loan

  • ‹ Prev
  • Last »

Try the research workspace - 7 days free


AI Briefs · Semantic Search · Save & annotate judgments

Start your 7-day free trial