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English practice. The office at which certain judicial writs are sealed with the prerogative seal, and without which they are of no authority. The officer whose duty it is to seal such writs is called sealer of writs; … [Read more...] about SEAL-OFFICE

property. That space of land, on the border of the sea, which is alternately covered and left dry, by the rising and falling of the tide or, in other words, that space of land between high and low water mark. 2. Generally, the sea shore belongs to the public. 3. By the Roman law, the shore included the land as far as the greatest wave extended in winter … [Read more...] about SEA SHORE

In Louisiana. Seals are placed upon the effects of a deceased person, in certain cases, by a public officer, as a method of taking official custody of the succession. See SEALING. … [Read more...] about SEALS

The name used by the Algonquin Indians for the shell beads (or wampum) which passed among the Indians as money. Webster. … [Read more...] about SEA WAN

A sailor; a mariner; one whose business is navigation. The term seamen, in it most enlarged sense, includes the captain a well as other persons of the crew; in a more confined signification, it extends only to the common sailors; are considered, as to their rights to sue in the admiralty, as common seamen; and persons employed on board of steamboats and lighters, engaged in … [Read more...] about SEAMAN