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Shipper

A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

The charterer or goods. Shipping articles. An vessel and the seamen The straying of cattle into uninclosed land; cattle. in the permissive as well as the imperative but false in fact, as a sham plea or answer. Share and share alike: in equal shares or A rule in English law which precludes the to a man for life, with remainder to his chiltail, the words of limitation over being relimitation and not of purchase, and as passing the The rule was propounded in Shelley's case, ofl Bcer of a county, specially entrusted with the and the preservation of the peace, — charged well as ministerial powers, and with the duty of the superior courts, the making of arjury: a jury summoned for the purpose of an sheriff upon a writ of inquiry.

— Sheriff's sale: deputy in execution of the mandate of legal clerk: the clerk of the sheriff's court Sheriff sheriff of a county, who is also a judge. a sheriff's ofi5ce. of a sheriff; the office of a sheriff. is made to change from one person to anafter-occurrence. a generic term, including all vessels; in a with three complete masts, viz., lower, top, Ship's husband: a person appointed by the a ship to manage the concerns of the ship for Ship's papers: papers with which a vessel is provided, — including, in case of a neutral passport or feea-letter, the muster roll, the of lading, the invoice, the log-book, and the ship;

— to send by ship; by an extension of the general means of transportation, as by steamrailway;

— to engage to serve on board a vessel as voyage or for a specified term. law.

The offense of breaking into a ship. freighter of a vessel; the person who ships agreement in writing between the master of a engaged to serve on board, specifying the