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Ton
avoirdupois each: see (English) Weights and Measures Act, 1878, s. 14. Ton, is a unit of volume in shipping parlance and is not to be taken as weight as may be commonly understood, Great Eastern Shipping Co.
Yacht
Yacht, a vessel used primarily for pleasure purposes. S. 260 of the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, includes pleasure yachts in Part II. of the act, except certain provisions set out in s.
Lascar
term is also applied to tent-pitchers, inferior artillery-men, and others.'Wilson's Indian Glossary. Agreements by masters or owners of ships with lascars are regulated by s. 125 of the (English) Merchant Shipping Act,1894, reproducing s. 544 of the
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Maritime Courts
Jud. (English) Act, 1925, s. 22 (1) (a)] to cases relating to the use or hire of a ship or carriage of goods in a ship, provided that the owner or part owner of the ship is
Prize Court
of Prize Courts; and see the (English) Naval Prize (Procedure) Act, 1916. The (English) Act of 1914 excepted ships of war. See also the (English) Prize Courts Acts, 1894 and 1915, and as to Vice-Admiralty Courts, in
Fatuous persons
Includes express reference to 'breach of statutory duty' and to 'liability in tort', Standard Chartered Bank v. Pakistan Shipping Corpn. (No. 4) (CA), (2000) 3 WLR 1692. Means negligence, breach of statutory duty or other act or
Boats
Health Act, 1936, s. 267. See Chitty's Statutes; and FISHING BOATS. As to the provision of boats on ships, with a view to the prevention of accidents and the saving of life at sea, see Order 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
Naval
Having to do with shipping of or pertaining to ships or a navy consisting of ships as naval forces successes stores etc
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. 60), s. 126, as amended by Merchant Shipping Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7,
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