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Free ships, neutral ships....
container ship
a ship designed to hold containerized cargoes...
Cartel-ship
Cartel-ship, a vessel commissioned in time of war to exchange the prisoners of two hostile powers; also a carry any particular proposal from one to another; for this reason the officer who commands her is particularly ordered to carry on cargo, ammunition, or implements of war, except a single gun for signals...
Ship rigged
Rigged like a ship that is having three masts each with square sails...
nuclear powered ship
A ship for which the motive power comes from the energy generated by a nuclear reactor...
Shipping
Relating to ships their ownership transfer or employment as shiping concerns...
Insurance
Insurance, see, Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), s. 80C, Expl. 1.Insurance, the act of providing against a possible loss, by entering into a contract with one who is willing to give assurance, that is, to bind himself to make good such loss should it occur. In this contract, the chances of benefit are equal to the insured and the insurer. The first actually pays a certain sum, and the latter undertakes to pay a larger, if an accident should happen. The one renders his property secure; the other receives money with the probability that it is clear gain. The instrument by which the contract is made is called a policy; the stipulated consideration, a premium. As to what is known as a coupon policy, i.e., a coupon cut out of a diary, etc., see General Accident, etc., Assce. Corpn. v. Robertson, 1909 AC 404.Insurable Interest must be possessed by the person taking out a policy; he must be so circumstanced as to have benefit from the existence of the person or thing insured, and some preju...
Vessel
Vessel, includes any ship, boat, sailing vessel or any other vessel of any description. [Offshore Areas Mineral (Development and Regulation) Act, 2002, s. 2(w)]Vessel, includes any ship, boat, sailing vessel, or other description of vessel used in navigation whether propelled by oars or otherwise and anything made for the conveyance, mainly by water, of human beings or of goods and a caisson. [Explosives Act, 1884 (IV of 1884), s. 4 (j)]According to the General Clauses Act a 'ship' shall include a vessel of every description used in navigation and not exclusively propelled by oars. A vessel on the other hand is a ship or boat or any other description of vessel used for navigation. Therefore, a vessel which is exclusively propelled by oars would not fall within the definition of a ship but would be covered by the wider definition of a vessel. From these two definitions it cannot be inferred that a mechanically propelled vessel is not a boat for the simple reason that the definition of v...
Charter-party
Charter-party [fr. Charta partita, Lat., a divided charter; charte partie, Fr.]. When notaries were less common there was only one instrument made for both 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 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 said to be chartered to the merchant, who is called the charter. There are certain terms usually to be found in all charter-parties, e.g., a statement of the burthen of the ship, an undertaking by the ship-owner that the ship, being seaworthy and furnished with necessaries, shall be ready by a certain day to receive the cargo, shall sail when loaded, and deliver her cargo at her port of destination (the act of God or the King's enemies excepted), the charterer undertaking to lo...
Maritime lien
Maritime lien, is well defined to mean a claim or privilege upon a thing to be carried into effect by legal process, that process to be a proceeding in rem ...... This claim or privilege travels with the thing into whosoever possession it may come. It is inchoate from the moment the claim or privilege attaches, and when carried into effect by legal process by a proceeding in rem, relates back to the period when it first attached, Bold Buccbugh, The (1852) 7 Moo PCC 267: (1843-60) All ER Rep 125.A maritime lien is a claim which attaches to the res i.e., the ship, freight, or cargo. It may arise ex delicto, e.g., compensation for damage by collision, or ex contractu, for services rendered to the res; but it is strictly confined to services such as salvage, supply of necessaries to the ship, and seamen's wages, and the courts show no tendency to extend the privilege (see The Ripon City, 1897, P. 226). Thus for ordinary work done upon a ship, such as repairs, there will be no maritime lien...
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