The Ecclesiastical and Admiralty Reports: Being Reports of Cases Heard Before the Arches and Prerogative Courts of Canterbury and the Consistory Court of London Respectively, the High Court of Admiralty and the Admiralty Prize Court, Volume 1A. & G. Spottiswoode, sold by W. G. Benning & Company, 1855 - Admiralty |
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Page 297 - always and be it further enacted, that any soldier being in actual military service, or any mariner or seaman being at sea, may dispose of his personal estate as he might have done before the making of this Act.
Page 436 - other person shall, unless it appears to the Court before which the case is tried that the circumstances of the case were such as to justify a departure from the rule, be subject in all proceedings, whether civil or criminal, to the legal consequences of. such default.
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Page 35 - non-observance of either of the foregoing rules, with respect to the passing of steamers or the exhibition of lights, the owners of the vessel by which any such rule has been infringed shall not be entitled to recover any recompense whatever." A case was cited at the bar in which