Mariner

One whose occupation it is to navigate vessels upon the sea. Surgeons, engineers, clerks, stewards, cooks, porters, and chambermaids, on passenger-steamers, when necessary for the service of the ship or crew, are also deemed mariners, and permitted as such to sue in the admiralty courts for their wages.

1 Conkl. Adm. 107. See Spinettl v. S. S. Co., 80 N. Y. 71, 36 Am. Rep. 579; 1 llagg. Adm. 187.

The term includes masters, mates, sailors, surveyors, carpenters, coopers, stewards, cooks, cabin boys, kitchen boys, e^igineers, pilots, firemen, deck hands, and waiters — women as well as men.

Bened. Adm. § 278.

Those employed u^n a vessel in any capacity, however humbie, and whose labor contributes in any degree, however slight, to the accomplishment of the main object; in which the vessel is engaged, are clothed by the law with the legal rights of mariners, “no matter what be their sex, character, station, or How. (U. S.) 89, 12 L. Ed. 618; Spinettt v. I S. S. Co., 80 N. Y. 80, 36 Am. Rep. 679. Mariners wfto receive for their wages a share in the profits of the voyage are not thereby made partners either as to rights or liabilities; Chapliue v. Conant, 8 W. Va. 507, 100 Am. Dee. 766. See Seamen; Lien; Shipping Abticles. MARITAGiO AMISSO PER DEFALTAM,. An obsolete writ for the tenant in frank marriage to recover lands, etc., of which he was deforced. MARITAGIUM (Lat). A marriage portion given by a man, usualiy to his daughter, or near relative.

8 Holdsw. Hist. E. L. 95.

See Feudal Law.

See Feudal Law.