The Law Relating to Merchant Seamen: Arranged Chiefly for the Use of Masters and Officers in the Merchant Service ...

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Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1844 - Maritime law - 290 pages

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Page 90 - ... every such offender shall be guilty of felony, and being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be transported beyond the seas for the term of seven years...
Page 275 - I [or we, $-c.] do hereby convict him of the offence aforesaid, and do declare and adjudge, that he the said EF hath forfeited the sum of of lawful money of Great Britain for the offence aforesaid, to be distributed [or paid, as the case may be] according to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided.
Page 185 - On or before the first day of February and the first day of August...
Page 216 - States shall be deemed to be the "master" thereof; and every person (apprentices excepted) who shall be employed or engaged to serve in any capacity on board the same shall be deemed and taken to be a "seaman"; and the term "vessel...
Page 187 - An Act to amend an act of the twentieth year of his majesty king George the second, for the relief and support of sick, maimed, and disabled seamen, and the widows and children of such as shall be killed, slain, or drowned in the merchant service ; and for other purposes.
Page 171 - ... due to him, it shall be lawful for any Justice of the Peace, in and for any part of Her Majesty's dominions or the territories under the government of the East India Company...
Page 61 - ... by the Lord High Admiral, or the commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral, or...
Page 209 - Use, or to be deficient in Quantity, the Person making such Examination shall signify the same in Writing to the Master of the Ship ; and if such Master does...
Page 61 - ... hundred tons of his ship's registered tonnage, or more than one witness for every fifty tons of such tonnage...
Page 170 - ... in the case of all other ships (except ships employed in the Southern Whale Fishery, or on other voyages for which seamen by the terms of their agreement are wholly compensated by shares in the profits of the adventure...

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