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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. 262. British yachts must be registered under the Act (see BRITISH SHIP), unless they do not exceed 15 tons net register and are employed solely in navigation in home alters or a British possession in which the managing owner resides (see s. 3, ibid.). Pleasure yachts are also exempt from the Load Line and Loading Provisions (Part II., ss. 40-67) of the Merchant Shipping (Safety and (English) Load Line Conventions) Act, 1932 (22 Geo. 5, c. 9). The (English) Sea Regulations, 1910 (S.R. & O. 1910, p. 457), apply to sea-going yachts....
Fin keel
A projection downward from the keel of a yacht resembling in shape the fin of a fish though often with a cigar shaped bulb of lead at the bottom and generally made of metal Its use is to ballast the boat and also to enable her to sail close to the wind and to make the least possible leeway by offering great resistance to lateral motion through the water...
footer
a suffix designating something with a length of so many feet used only in combinations with a numerical prefix as he is a six footer the golfer sank a 40 footer his yacht is a 60 footer...
Knockabout
A small yacht generally from fifteen to twenty five feet in length having a mainsail and a jib a sloop with a simplified rig and no bowsprit All knockabouts have ballast and either a keel or centerboard The original type was twenty one feet in length The next larger type is called a raceabout...
marconi rig
A rig of triangular sails for a yacht...
Raceabout
A small sloop rigged racing yacht carrying about six hundred square feet of sail distinguished from a knockabout by having a short bowsprit...
Dewelling-House
Dewelling-House, means A house boat which was moored to a pontoon and to the bank and bed of river in which it took the ground at half tide, was let to the defendant by an agreement which closely followed a form appropriate for the letting of a Dewelling-House and which described the patties as landlord and tenant and the house boat as a single-storey vessel, Chelsea Yacht and Boat Co. Ltd. v. Pope (CA), (2000) 1 WLR 1941.Implies a building used or capable of being used as a residence by one or more families, and provided with all necessary parts and appliances, such as floors, windows, staircases, etc., Willioms v. Fitzmaurice, (1869) LRu QB 316...
Domicile
Domicile, the place where a person has his home.By the term 'domicile,' in its ordinary acceptation, is meant the place where a person lives or has his home. In this sense the place where a person has his actual residence, inhabitancy, or commorancy, is sometimes called his domicile. In a strict and legal sense, that is properly the domicile of a person where he has his true fixed permanent home and principal establishment, and to which, whenever he is absent, he has the intention of returning (animus revertendi).Two things, then, must concur to constitute domicile: first, residence; and secondly, the intention of making it the home of the party. There must be the fact and intent; for, as Pothier has truly observed, a person cannot establish a domicile in a place except it be animo et facto.From these considerations and rules the general conclusion may be deduced, that domicile is of three sorts: domicile by birth, domicile by choice, and domicile by operation of law. The first is the ...
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