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Ordinary seaman

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

A sailor who is capable of performing the ordinary or routine duties of a seaman, but who is not yet s'o proficient in the knowledge and practice of all the various duties of a sailor at sea as to be rated as an "able" seaman.

Ordinary skill in an art. that degree of skill which men engaged in that particular art usually employ; not that which belongs to a few men only, of extraordinary endowments and capacities. Baltimore Baseball Club Co. v. Pickett, 78 Md. 375, 28 Atl. 279, 22 L. R. A. 690, 44 Am. St. Rep. 304; Waugh v. Shunk, 20 Pa. 130. As to ordinary "Care," "Diligence," "Negligence," see those titles.

Defined under Ordinary in Black's Law Dictionary.