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A yard or storage place for all sorts of naval stores and timber for shipbuilding...
Forming
The act or process of giving form or shape to anything as in shipbuilding the exact shaping of partially shaped timbers...
Ironbark
The Australian Eucalyptus Sideroxylon used largely by carpenters and shipbuilders called also ironwood Also applied to other Australian eucalyptuses with a hard solid bark...
Mora
A leguminous tree of Guiana and Trinidad Dimorphandra excelsa also its timber used in shipbuilding and making furniture...
VerbarSabicu
The very hard wood of a leguminous West Indian tree Lysiloma Sabicu valued for shipbuilding...
Shipbuilder
A person whose occupation is to construct ships and other vessels a naval architect a shipwright...
Shipbuilding
Naval architecturel the art of constructing ships and other vessels...
Sissoo
A leguminous tree Dalbergia Sissoo of the northern parts of India also the dark brown compact and durable timber obtained from it It is used in shipbuilding and for gun carriages railway ties etc...
Impossibility
Impossibility. If a man contract to do a thing which is absolutely impossible by its nature, such contract will not bind him--lex non cogit ad impossibilia, e.g., where the subject-matter has perished before date of contract, or never existed [see (English) Sale of Goods Act, 1893, s. 6; and Conturier v. Hastie, (1852) 8 Ex 43 & HLC 673]; but where the contract operating as a transfer of real property, e.g., as a demise, is to do a thing which is possible in itself, but which becomes impossible, he will be liable for the breach; thus, where a lessee covenants to repair and to leave in repair the demised premises he is not discharged from his liability because they happen to be destroyed [see Bullock v. Dommitt, (1796) 6 TR 650]; or requisitioned by the military, Whitehall Court Ltd. v. Etlinger, (1920) 1 KB 680.The non-performance of a contract which arises from an act of the law having rendered performance impossible is excused, see Baily v. De Crespigny, (1869) LR 4 QB 180; Re Shipto...
Workshop
Workshop, for the purpose of (English) Factory and Workshop Act, 1901 (1 Edw. 7, c. 22), means hat works, rope works, bakehouses, lace warehouses, shipbuilding works quarries, pit banks, dry-cleaning, carpet-beating, and bottle-washing works, and any premises named in Part II. of the 6th Schedule, not being a 'factory' where manual labour is used for gain, or for making, repairing, or adapting for sale any article, in premises to which the employer has a right of access, including laundries, as provided by the (English) Factory and Workshop Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 39), s. 1; all consolidated and repealed by the Factories Act, 1937, and of FACTORY.Means any premises (including the precincts thereof) wherein any industrial process is carried on, but does not include any premises to which the provisions of s. 67 of the Factories Act, 1948 for the time being, apply. [Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 (61 of 1986), s. 2(x)]...
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