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contracts. The exact weight of an article, without the bag, box, keg, or other thing in which it may be enveloped. … [Read more...] about NEAT OR NET

Pertaining to ships or to the art of navigation or the business of carriage by sea. Nautical assessors. Experienced shipmasters, or other persons having special knowledge of navigation and nautical affairs, who are called to the assistance of a court of admiralty, in difficult cases involving questions of negligence, and who sit with the judge during the argument, and give … [Read more...] about NAUTICAL

United States Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals … [Read more...] about Navy-Marine Crim. App.

Latin: In the civil law. Nautical or maritime interest; an extraordinary rate of interest agreed to be paid for the loan of money on the hazard of a voyage; corresponding to Interest on contracts of bottomry or respondentia in English and American maritime law. See Mackeld. Rom. Law, 5 433; 2 Bl. Comm. 458. … [Read more...] about NAUTICUM FCENUS

A sum paid to government as an acknowledgment for a grant of lands, or any public office. Enc. Lond. … [Read more...] about NAZERANNA