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Le guidon de la mer






Le guidon de la mer

The name of a treatise on maritime law, written in Rouen, then Normandy, in 1671, as is supposed. it was received on the continent of Europe almost as equal in authority to one of the ancient codes of maritime law. The author of this work is unknown. This tract or treatise is contained in the Collection de Lois Maritimes".

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Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.

Treatise
A formal and systematic book or writing containing a narrative statement on a field of law.

Maritime
That which belongs to or is connected with the sea.

Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.

Authority
Government. The right and power which an officer has in the exercise of a public function to compel obedience to his lawful commands.

Unknown
When goods have been stolen from some person unknown, they may be so described in the indictment; but if the owner be really known, an indictment alleging the property to belong to some person unknown is improper.



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Laycan
An abbreviation of "layday cancelling date" or "laydays cancelling". A term used in a voyage charterparty, (supra) referring to the period of time between the commencement of laytime (infra) (being the beginning of the "lay days" when the charterer must commence loading the cargo), and the cancelling date (being the date after which the charterer may repudiate the charterparty if the ship has not then arrived at the specified port or place of loading). This period, also called the "laycan spread", is typically expressed as two dates, for example "laycan 25 March/2 April", meaning that the charterer may not be obliged to commence loading earlier than 25 March even if the ship has arrived at the specified port or place of loading by that date, and that he may cancel the charterparty if the ship has not arrived there by 2 April.

Layman
Ecclesiastical law. One who is not an ecclesiastic nor a clergyman.

Laytime
In a voyage charterparty, the period of time (the "lay days") agreed between the parties during which the shipowner will make and keep the vessel available to the voyage charterer for loading or discharging without payment additional to the freight (supra).

Lazaret
A place selected by public authority, where vessels coming from infected or unhealthy countries are required to perform quarantine.

Lazzaretto
A place selected by public authority, where vessels coming from infected or unhealthy countries are required to perform quarantine.

Le guidon de la mer

Le roi le veut
The king assents. This is the formula used in England, and formerly in France, when the king approved of a bill passed by the legislature.

Le roi s'avisera
The king will consider of it. This phrase is used by the English monarch when he gives his dissent to an act passed by the lords and commons. The same formula was used by the late king of the French, for the purpose.

Le roi veut en deliberer
The king will deliberate on it. This is the formula which the late French king used, when he intended to veto an act of the legislative assembly.

Leader
An underwriter whose judgment is so respected by other underwriters that they will follow his lead in accepting a risk presented by the assured's broker. His syndicate or company will be the first to initial the slip presented by the assured's broker.

Leading
That which is to be followed; as, a leading case; leading question, leading counsel.

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