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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...
Foreign-going vessel or aircraft
Foreign-going vessel or aircraft, means any vessel or aircraft for the time being engaged in the carriage of goods or passengers between any port or airport in India and any port or airport outside India, whether touching any intermediate port or airport in India or not, and includes-(i) any naval vessel of a foreign Government taking part in any naval exercises;(ii) any vessel engaged in fishing or any other operations outside the territorial waters of India;(iii) any vessel or aircraft proceeding to a place out-side India for any purpose whatsoever. [Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), s. 2 (21)]...
Giving away vessel
Giving away vessel, when a vessel finds herself so close to another vessel that a collision cannot be avoided by the action of the giving-way vessel alone, she must also take such action as will best aid to avert collision, Asiatic Steam navigation Co. Ltd. v. Sub-Lt.-Arabinda Chakravarti, AIR 1959 SC 597 (607): (1959) Supp 1 SCR 979.Whoever being legally bound by an oath or by an express provision of law to state the truth, or being bound by law to make a declaration upon any subject, makes any statement which is false, and which he either knows or believes to be false or does not believe to be true, is said to give false evidence.Explanation 1.--A statement is within the meaning of this section whether it is made verbally or otherwise.Explanation 2.--A false statement as to the belief of the person attesting is within the meaning of this section, and a person may be guilty of giving false evidence by stating that he believes a thing which he does not believe, as well as by stating th...
vessel
vessel A ship, brig, sloop or other craft used, or capable of being used, in navigation on water. In order to be a vessel, for purposes of the Jones Act, the structure's purpose must be the transportation of passengers, cargo or equipment from place to place across navigable waters. Source: FindLaw ...
Inland mechanically propelled vessel
Inland mechanically propelled vessel, means a mechanically propelled vessel which ordinarily plies on any inland water. [National Waterway, Safety of Navigation and Shipping Regulations, 2002, Reg. 2(h)]...
Mechanically propelled vessel
Mechanically propelled vessel, means every description of vessel propelled wholly or in part by electricity steam or other mechanical power. [National Waterway Safety of Navigation and Shipping Regulation, 2002, R. 2(L)]...
Blood vessel
Any vessel or canal in which blood circulates in an animal as an artery or vein...
Fishing vessel
Fishing vessel, means a ship fitted with mechanical means of propulsion which is exclusively engaged in sea fishing for profit. [Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 (44 of 1958), s. 3(12)]...
Ship
Ship, the carriage of goods by Sea Act, 1925 (26 of 1925). [XXVI of 1925, Sch. Art. 1, Cl. (d)]Ship, means any vessel used for the carriage of goods by sea.A type of vessel used or intended to be used in navigation, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1382.In the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60), by s. 742, 'includes every description of vessel used in navigation not propelled by oars.' [This definition has been adopted by the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 34), s. 48(1)]'Foreign-going ship,' by the same s., 'includes every ship employed in trading, or going between some place or places in the United Kingdom, and some place or places situate beyond the following limits: that is to say, the coasts of the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, and the continent of Europe, between the river Elbe and Brest inclusive'; and'Home-trade ship' includes 'every ship employed in trading or going' within the above limits; and'Home-trade pass...
Piracy
Piracy [fr. pirata, Lat.], the commission of those acts of robbery and violence upon the sea, which if committed upon land wold amount to felony. Pirates hold no commission or delegated authority from any sovereign or State, empowering them to attack others. They can, therefore, be only regarded in the light of robbers. They are, as Cicero has truly stated, the common enemies of all (communes hostes omnium); and the law of nations gives to every one the right to pursue and exterminate them without any previous declaration of war (see Piracy Jure Gentium, 1934, AC 586, where a frustrated attempt was held to be piracy by that law); but it is not allowed to kill them without trial, except in battle. Those who surrender or are taken prisoners must be brought before the proper magistrates, and dealt with according to law. By the ancient Common Law of England, piracy, if committed by a subject, was held to be a species of treason, being contrary to his natural allegiance; if by an alien, to ...
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