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Ship's papers, documents required for the manifes-tation of the property of the ship and cargo, etc. See a list of them in Form No. 17, Appx. K, of the Rules of the Supreme Court, 1883.They are of two sorts: (1) those required by the law of a particular country, as the certificate of registry, licence, charter-party, bills of lading and of health, required by the law of England to be onboard all British ships; (2) those required by the law of nations to be onboard neutral ships, to vindicate their title to that character; they are the passport, sea-brief, or sea-letter, proofs of property, the muster-roll, or role d'equipage; the charter-party, the bills of lading and invoices, the log-book or ship's journal, and the bill of health, 1 Marshall on Insur., c. 9, s. 6....
Law of shipping
Law of shipping, means the part of maritime law relating to the building, equipping, registering, owning, inspecting, transporting, and employing of ships alongwith the laws applicable to shipmasters, agents, crews and cargoes; the maritime law relating to ships. Also termed shipping law, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 893....
General ship
General ship, a ship employed by the owners on a particular voyage in the conveyance of the goods of a number of persons unconnected with each other....
Ship-money
Ship-money, an imposition formerly levied on port-towns and other places for fitting out ships for the defence of the realm. It had become obsolete, but was revived by Charles I., who attempted to levy it in the county of Bucks. John Hampden, a gentleman of the county, was accordingly assessed at 20s., which he declined to pay, and proceedings were taken against him in the Exchequer. Judgment was given for the Crown, 'which gave such offence to the nation and occasioned great heart-burnings' in Parliament. Resolutions were at once passed condemning the judgment, and it was reversed and the whole abuse abolished by 16 Car. 1, c. 14. See Case of Ship Money, (1737) 3 St. Tr. 825; Broom's Const. Law, p. 306....
Chartered Ship
Chartered Ship, a ship hired or freighted....
free alongside ship
free alongside ship : with delivery at the side of the ship free of charges and the buyer's liability then beginning ...
British ship
British ship, As to the qualification for owning and the obligation to register British ships, see Merchant Shipping Act,1894, ss. 1-3. The owner must be a British subject, natural born or naturalized, or a denizen q.v., or a body corporate established and subject to the laws of some part of His Majesty's dominions and having their principal place of business in those dominions but not a natural born British subject who has taken the oath of allegiance to a foreign sovereign or State or become a citizen or subject of a foreign State or been naturalized or made a denizen, unless while he is owning a British ship he has taken the oath of allegiance to the King after his disqualification and is, during his ownership, either resident in the said dominions or is partner of a firm carrying on business there....
Husband of a ship
Husband of a ship. See SHIP'S HUSBAND....
Registrar-General of shipping and seamen
Registrar-General of shipping and seamen. To secure the great object of affording general information from time to time as to the state of our mercantile marine, it is provided that there shall be in the Port of London a 'General Register and Record Office for Seamen,' under the management of this officer. See (English) Merchant ShippingAct, 1894, ss. 251 et seq....
Shipping note
A document used in shipping goods by sea In the case of free goods the shipping notes are the receiving note addressed by the shipper to the chief officer of the vessel requesting him to receive on board specified goods and a receipt for the mate to sign on receiving whose signature it is called the mates receipt and is surrendered by the shipper for the bills of lading...
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