Mariner
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
Includes cooks, stewards, carpenters, coopers, and firemen, as well as sailors; all on board the vessel employed in her equipment, her preservation, or the preservation of the crew, are denominated, seamen. Wolverton ».
Lacey, 8 Monthly Laic Rep. N. s. 672.
Manner, in the statute allowing nuncupative wills, applies to every person in the naval or mercantile service, from the common seaman to the captain or admiral.
Gwm's Will, 1 Tuck. 44.
It applies to the cook or purser, as well as to the sailor. Exp. Thompson, 4 Bradf. men, yet they may be regarded as " persons enlisted for the navy," witliin the meaning of the act of 1837, which gives a premium for re-enlistment.
Wilkes v. Dinsman, 7 How. 89.
Foreigners, while employed as seamen in the merchant ships of the United States, are deemed to be " mariners and seamen of the United States," within the language and policy of the act of congress of Feb. 28, 1803 (2 Stat, at L. 203), which provides for destitute seamen in foreign ports.
Matthews V. Offley, 3 Sumn. 115.