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

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

One who transacts business between the owners of vessels and merchants who send cargoes. … [Read more...] about SHIP BROKER

(verb) - In maritime law. To put on board a ship; to send by ship. To engage to serve on board a vessel as a seaman.(noun) - A vessel of any kind employed in navigation. In a more restricted and more technical sense, a thre~e masted vessel navigated with sails. The term "ship" or "shipping," when used in this Code, includes steam boats, sailing vessels, canal boats, barges, and … [Read more...] about SHIP

Formerly, a jocose term for a bank-note greatly depreciated in value; also for paper money of a denomination less than a dollar. Webster. See Madison Ins. Co. v. Forsythe, 2 Ind. 483. … [Read more...] about SHIN-PLASTER