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Home Dictionary Name: shoreOff Shore Banking Unit
Off Shore Banking Unit, means a branch of a bank located in a Special Economic Zone and which has obtained the permission under clause (a) of sub-s. (1) of s. 23 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 (10 of 1949); The Special Economic Zones Act, 2005, s. 2(u)...
Wharf
Wharf, a broad plain place, near some creek or haven, to lay goods and wares on that are brought to or from the water. See Harbours, Docks, and Piers Clauses Act, 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 27), s. 68, and Port of London (Consolidation) Act, 1920 (10 Geo. 5, c. clxxiii.).A structure on shore of navigable waters, to which a vessel can be brought for loading or unloading, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1589.There are two kinds-1st, legal, which are certain wharves in all seaports, appointed by commission from the Court of Exchequer, or legalized by Act of Parliament; 2nd, sufferance, which are places where certain goods may be landed and shipped, by special sufferance granted by the Crown for that purpose, 2 Steph. Com. See as to both kinds, Customs (Consolidation) Act, 1876 (39 & 40 Vict. c. 36). As to larcenies from a wharf, see Larceny Act, 1916, s. 15. As to implied liability or warranty for fitness of wharf for a ship unloading, see The Moorcock, (1889) 14 PD 64.Wharf, as a landin...
Offing
That part of the sea at a good distance from the shore or where there is deep water and no need of a pilot also distance from the shore as the ship had ten miles offing we saw a ship in the offing...
Wreck
Wreck, such goods, including the ship or cargo or any part [(English) Merchant Shipping act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60], ss. 518 to 522, and Hals. L. E., sub tit. 'Shipping'; Part XII., 'Wreck,'), as, after a shipwreck, are afloat or cast upon the land by the sea. According to an old definition (Jacob's Law Dict., tit. 'Wreck') they were not wrecks so long as they remained at sea in the jurisdiction of the Admiralty. By s. 510 of the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, 'wreck' includes in that Act 'jetsam, flotsam, and derelict found in or on the shores of the sea or any tidal water.'The term is used in several senses, e.g., a ship which is so damaged as to be unable to continue her voyage is a 'wreck' for the purposes of s. 158 of the M.S. Act, 1894; and Barras v. Aberdeen Steam Trawlers, 1933, AC 402, under the (English) Merchant Shipping (International Labour Conventions) Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 42); The Olympic, 1913 P. 92. The old distinction appears to be that if propert...
Sea chart
A chart or map on which the lines of the shore islands shoals harbors etc are delineated...
manila bay
The name of a naval battle in the Spanish American War 1898 in which the American fleet under Admiral Dewey defeated the Spanish fleet off the shore of Manila in the Phillipines...
Moses
A large flatboat used in the West Indies for taking freight from shore to ship...
Offshore
From the shore as an offshore wind an offshore signal...
Palmy
Bearing palms abounding in palms derived from palms as a palmy shore...
Rance
A prop or shore...
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