Marine
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
1.
Pertaining to the sea; nearly equivalent to maritime.
2.
A soldier of that class which are enlisted for employment on board of vessels of war. Marine is a general name for the navy of a kingdom or state; as also for the whole economy of naval affairs, or whatever respects the building, rigging, arming, equipping, navigating, and fighting ships. It also means the government of naval armaments, and the state of all the persons employed therein, whether civil or military; also, a soldier in the sea-service.
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Marines, otherwise called royal marines, board of transports or merchant ships, in which cases they are subject to the annual marine mutiny acts; sometimes on board her majesty's ships-of-war, in which case they are subject to the laws relating to the goyernmeut of her majesty's forces by sea. Mozky ^ W.
Marine contract
A contract relating to business to be done at sea, or to matters particularly connected with commerce by vessels;' better styled a maritime contract, q. v.
Marine corps
A body of soldiers enlisted and equipped for service on board vessels of war; the aggi'egate force of the marines; also, sometimes, the naval forces of the nation.
Marine court
A court in the city of New York, originally constituted chiefly for determination of controversies involving seamen arriving in that port; but now possessing much more general jurisdiction.
Marine insurance
Insurance of vessels or their cargoes against perils of navigation. See Insdranck. Marine interest. Extra interest allowed to be reserved where the lender of money towards the necessities of a voyage, secured to be paid by a bottomry bond, assumes the risk of the voyage.
Marine league
A measure of distance commonly employed at sea, being equal to one twentieth part of a degree of latitude Marine risk. The perils necessarily incident to navigation constitute the marine risk. Thus, when a vessel is chartered, it may be an important question whether the charterer or the owner bears the marine risk; and when money is loaned on bottomry, a greater interest is allowed, because the lender assumes the marine risk.