Shipmaster - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: shipmasterShipmaster
The captain master or commander of a ship...
Exercitorial power
Exercitorial power, the trust given to a shipmaster....
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....
Lien
Lien [answering to the tacita hypotheca of the Civil Law], a right in one man to retain that which is in his possession belonging to another, until certain demands of the person in possession are satisfied. It is neither a jus in re, nor a jus ad rem--i.e., it is not a right of property in the thing itself, or right of action to the thing itself.It is either particular, as a right to retain a thing for some charge or claim growing out of, or connected with, the identical thing; or general, as a right to retain a thing not only for such charges or claims, but also for a general balance of accounts between the parties in respect to other dealings of the like nature.General and particular liens may arise: (1) by an express contract; (2) by an implied contract, resulting from the usage of trade, or the manner of dealing between parties. General lines are not favoured in law, but some judicially recognized general lines are bankers', solicitors', factors', stockbrokers'. See Halsb. L.E., ti...
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