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Lloyd's register of shipping






Lloyd's register of shipping

A parent organization which is the world's leading classification society. The Register of Ships contains details of some 83,000 merchant ships from around the world. For publications, contact Marine Information Publishing Group.

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

Society
A society is a number of persons united together by mutual consent, in order to deliberate, determine, and act jointly for some common purpose.

Register
1) Register or Registrar. An officer authorized by law to keep a record called a register or registry; as the register for the probate of wills.2) Common law. The certificate of registry granted to the person or persons entitled thereto, by the collector of the district, comprehending the port to which any ship or vessel shall belong; more properly, the registry itself. 3) Evidence. A book containing a record of facts as they occur, kept by public authority; a register of births, marriages and burials.

Merchant
One whose business it is to buy and sell merchandise; this applies to all persons who habitually trade in merchandise.

Marine
Whatever concerns the navigation of the sea, and forms the naval power of a nation is called its marine.

Information
1) An accusation or complaint made in writing to a court of competent jurisdiction, charging some person with a specific violation of some public law. 2) In the French law, the term information is used to signify the act or instrument which contains the depositions of witnesses against the accused.



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Livery of seisin
Estates. A delivery of possession of lands, tenements, and hereditaments, unto one entitled to the same. This was a ceremony used in the common law for the conveyance of real estate; and the livery was in deed, which was performed by the feoffor and the feoffee going upon the land, and the latter receiving it from the former; or in law, where the game was not made on the land, but in sight of it.

Living pledge
Living pledge or Vivum Vadium , contracts. When a man borrows a sum of money (suppose two hundred dollars) of another, and grants him an estate, as of twenty dollars per annum, to hold till the rents and profits shall repay the sum so borrowed.

Living trust
A trust set up and in effect during the lifetime of the grantor. (Also called inter vivos trust.)

Livre tournois
Common law. A coin used in France before the revolution. It is to be computed in the ad valorem duty on goods, &c., at eighteen and a half cents. Act of March 2, 1798,

Ll.b., l.m. or ll.d.
The Latin abbreviations for the three classes of law degrees: the regular bachelor degree in law (LL.B.), the masters degree in law (LL.M.) and the doctorate in law (LL.D.). These are basic prerequisites to admission to the practice of law in many states.

Lloyd's register of shipping

Load lines
Lines painted on the side of a ship, indicating the maximum depth to which the vessel may safely be loaded.

Loadmanage
Maritime law, contracts. The pay to loadsmen; that is, persons who sail or row before ships, in barks or small vessels, with instruments for towing the ship, and directing her course, in order that she may escape the dangers in her way.

Loan
1) A loan in general implies that a thing is lent without reward; but, in some cases, a loan may be for a reward; as, the loan of money. 2) Contracts. The act by which a person lets another have a thing to be used by him gratuitously, and which is to be returned, either in specie or in kind, agreeably to the terms of the contract. The thing which is thus transferred is also called a loan.

Loan for consumption
Loan for consumption or mututum. A contract by which the owner of a personal chattel, called the lender, delivers it to another, known as the borrower, by which it is agreed that the borrower shall consume the chattel loaned, and return at the time agreed upon, another chattel, of the same quality, kind, and number, to the lender, either gratuitously or for a con- sideration; as, if Peter lends to Paul one bushel of wheat, to be used by the latter, so that it shall not be returned to Peter, but instead of which Paul will return to Peter another bushel of wheat of the same kind and quality, at a time agreed upon.

Loan for use
Loan for use or comodatum. Contracts. A bailment, or loan of an article for a certain time, to be used by the borrower, without paying for it. Sir William Jones defines it to be a bailment of a thing for a certain time, to be used by the borrower, without paying for it.

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