Shipping
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
Ships of any kind intended for navigation. Also, relating to ships: as in the expressions, shipping interest, shipping aifairs, shipping business, shipping concerns. Also, the act of putting on board a ship or vessel, or sometimes that of receiving on board a ship or vessel. The law of shipping is that branch of the general law which relates to vessels; including such subjects as their registration, building, tonnage, ownership, and national character; also, the employment and rights of the seamen on board of them, and the powers and duties of their masters and commanders; also, ship-brokers and shipagents, pilots, &c.; also, the sale or transfer and mortgage of merchant vessels; also, freight, charter-parties, demurrage, salvage, towage, collisions, &c. seamen in the merchant service are taken into the service of a vessel for the voyage.
Shipping commissioner
An officer, under acts of congress, charged with attention to the engagement of seamen in the merchant service, and with enforcement of the laws for their protection and relief.