Marine

Naval; relating or pertaining to the sea; transacted at sea; doing duty of servico on the sea. This is also a general name for the navy of a kingdom or state; as also the whole economy of naval affairs, or whatever respects the bullding, rigging, arming, equipping, navigating, and fighting ships. It comprehends also the government of naval armaments, and the state of all the persons employed therein, whether civil or military. Also one of the marines. Wharton. See Dough ten v. Vandever, 5 Del. Ch. 73.

— Marine belt. That portion of the main or open sea, adjacent to the shores of a given country, over which the jurisdiction of its municipal laws and local authorities extends; defined by international law as extending out three miles from the shore. See The Alexander (D. Ct) 60 Fed. 918.

— Marine carrier. By statutes of several states this term is applied to carriers plying upon the ocean, arms of the sea, the Great Lakes, and other navigable waters within the jurisdiction of the United States. Civ. Code Cal. i9O3, § 2087; Rev. & Ann. St Okl. 1903, f 652; Rev. Codes N. D. 1899, f 4176.

— Marine contract. One relating to maritime affairs, shipping, navigation, marine insurance, affreightment, maritime loans, or other business to be done upon the sea or in connection with navigation.

— Marine corps. A body of soldiers enlisted and equipped for service on board vessels of war; also the naval forces of the nation. U. S. v. Dunn, 120 U. S. 249, 7 Sup. Ch 507, 30 L. Ed. 607.
—Marine court iu the city of New York. A local court of New York having original jurisdiction of civil causes, where the action is for personal injuries or defamation, and of other civil actions where the damages claimed do not exceed $2,000. It is a court of record. It was originally created as a tribunal for the settlement of causes between seamen.

— Marine insurance. See Insurance.

— Marine interest. Interest, allowed to be stipulated for at an extraordinary rate, for the use and risk of money loaned on respondentia and bottomry bands.

— Marine leagne. A measure of distance commonly employed at sea, being equal to one-twentieth part of a degree of latitude, or three geographical or nautical miles. See Rockland, etc., S. Co., v. Fessenden, 79 Me. 140, 8 Atl. 552.

— Marine risk. The perils of the sea; the perils necessarily incident to navigation.

— Marine Society. In English law. A charitable instifution for the purpose of apprenticing hoys to the naval service, etc., incorporated by 12 Geo. Ill, c. 67.