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Circular indemnity clause






Circular indemnity clause

In such a clause, the cargo owner stipulates that no claim will be made against the carrier's agents, servants, stevedores, terminal operators and subcontractors and that if a claim is made, the cargo owner will indemnify the carrier against all consequences.

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Clause
Contracts. A particular disposition which makes part of a treaty; of an act of the legislature; of a deed, written agreement, or other written contract or will.

Cargo
Maritim law. The entire load of a ship or other vessel.

Owner
Property. The owner is he who has dominion of a thing real or person-al, corporeal or incorporeal, which he has a right to enjoy and to do with as he pleases, even to spoil or destroy it, as far as the law permits, unless he be prevented by some agreement or covenant which restrains his right.

Claim
A demand for resolution or remedy of a grievance, or for something that is rightly the claimant's. Example: A demand for payment to recover a loss protected by an insurance policy. A demand in a court of law filed by a claimant on any juridical issue he / she considers.

Will
A will is a legal document in which a person directs how his property is to be distributed after his death. Such documents must be executed in due form and must be duly witnessed.

Servants
(Negro or mulatto) Pennsylvania. By the fourth section of the act for the gradual abolition of slavery, passed the first day of March, 1780, it is "provided that every negro or mulatto child, born within this state after the passing of this act, shall be by virtue of this act the servant of such person, or his assigns who would in such case have been entitled to the service of such child, until such child attain unto the age of twenty-eight years, in the manner and on the conditions, whereon servants bound by indenture for four years are or may be retained or holden; and shall be liable to like correction and punishment, and entitled to like relief, in case he be evilly treated by his master, and to like freedom dues and privileges, as servants bound by indenture for four years are entitled, unless the person to whom such services belong shall abandon his claim to the same;

Carrier
One who engages to transport persons or property.



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Circuit
A division of country visited by a judge for the dispensing of justice, as for the trial of causes; also, the periodical journey itself.

Circuit court
The name of a court of the United States, which has both civil and criminal jurisdiction. In several of the states there are courts which bear this name.

Circuits
Certain divisions of the country, appointed for particular judges to visit for the trial of causes, or for the administration of justice.

Circuity of action
Practice, remedies. It is where a party, by bringing an action, gives an action to the defendant against him.

Circulating medium
By this term is understood whatever is used in making payments, as money, bank notes, or paper which passes from hand to hand in payment of goods, or debts.

Circumduction
Scotch law. A term applied to the time allowed for bringing proof of allegiance, which being elapsed, if either party sue for circumduction of the time of proving, it has the effect that no proof can afterwards be brought.

Circumstandibus
Persons, practice. Bystanders from whom jurors are to be selected when the panel has been exhausted.

Circumstantial evidence
Evidence which may allow a judge or jury to deduce a certain fact from other facts which have been proven. In some cases, there can be some evidence that can not be proven directly, such as with an eye-witness. And yet that evidence may be essential to prove a case. In these cases, the lawyer will provide the judge or juror with evidence of the circumstances from which a juror or judge can logically deduct, or reasonably infer, the fact that cannot be proven directly; it is proven by the evidence of the circumstances; hence, "circumstantial" evidence. Fingerprints are an example of circumstantial evidence: while there may be no witness to a person's presence in a certain place, or contact with a certain object, the scientific evidence of someone's fingerprints is persuasive proof of a person's presence or contact with an object.

Circumvention
Torts, Scotch law. Any act of fraud whereby a person is reduced to a deed by decreet.



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Cinque ports
English law. Literally, five ports. The name by which tho five ports of Hastings, Ramenhale, Hetha or Hethe, Dover, and Sandwich, are known.

Circuit
A division of country visited by a judge for the dispensing of justice, as for the trial of causes; also, the periodical journey itself.

Circuit court
The name of a court of the United States, which has both civil and criminal jurisdiction. In several of the states there are courts which bear this name.

Circuits
Certain divisions of the country, appointed for particular judges to visit for the trial of causes, or for the administration of justice.

Circuity of action
Practice, remedies. It is where a party, by bringing an action, gives an action to the defendant against him.

Circular indemnity clause

Circulating medium
By this term is understood whatever is used in making payments, as money, bank notes, or paper which passes from hand to hand in payment of goods, or debts.

Circumduction
Scotch law. A term applied to the time allowed for bringing proof of allegiance, which being elapsed, if either party sue for circumduction of the time of proving, it has the effect that no proof can afterwards be brought.

Circumstandibus
Persons, practice. Bystanders from whom jurors are to be selected when the panel has been exhausted.

Circumstantial evidence
Evidence which may allow a judge or jury to deduce a certain fact from other facts which have been proven. In some cases, there can be some evidence that can not be proven directly, such as with an eye-witness. And yet that evidence may be essential to prove a case. In these cases, the lawyer will provide the judge or juror with evidence of the circumstances from which a juror or judge can logically deduct, or reasonably infer, the fact that cannot be proven directly; it is proven by the evidence of the circumstances; hence, "circumstantial" evidence. Fingerprints are an example of circumstantial evidence: while there may be no witness to a person's presence in a certain place, or contact with a certain object, the scientific evidence of someone's fingerprints is persuasive proof of a person's presence or contact with an object.

Circumvention
Torts, Scotch law. Any act of fraud whereby a person is reduced to a deed by decreet.

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