In the charter parties with the English East India Company, these words occur; their meaning is damage from negligence, insufficiency or bad stowage in the ship. … [Read more...] about SHIP DAMAGES
SHIFTING THE BURDEN OF PROOF
The transfer of the burden of proving a fact or disproving a fact from one party to the other. For example, if one party proved a fact, then the other party bears the burden of now rebutting the presumption that the fact attested to by a witness is true. … [Read more...] about SHIFTING THE BURDEN OF PROOF
SHIPPING ARTICLES
contr. mar. law. The act of congress of July 20, 1790, s. 1, directs that a master of any vessel bound from a port in the United States to any foreign port, or of any vessel of fifty tons or upwards, bound from a port in one state to a port in any other than at adjoining state, shall, before he proceed on such voyage, make an agreement in writing or in print, with every seaman … [Read more...] about SHIPPING ARTICLES
SHOCK
In medical jurisprudence. A sudden and severe depression of the vital functions, particularly of the nerves and the circulation, due to the nervous exhaustion following trauma, surgical operation, or sudden and violent emotion, resulting (if not in death) in more or less prolonged prostration; it is spoken of as being either physical or psychical, according as it is caused by … [Read more...] about SHOCK
SHIPPED
This term, in common maritime and commercial usage, means "placed on board of a vessel for the purchaser or consignee, to be transported at his risk." Fisher v. Minot, 10 Gray (Mass.) 262. 1. The owner of goods who intrusts them on board a vessel for delivery abroad, by charter-party or otherwise 2. Also, a Dutch word, signifying the master of a ship. It is mentioned in some of … [Read more...] about SHIPPED