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Seal
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SealTo mark a document with a seal; to authenticate or make binding by affixing a seal. Court seal, corporate seal.
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Mark
This term has several acceptations: 1) It is a sign traced on paper or parchment, which stands in the place of a signature, usually made by persons who cannot write. 2) It is the sign, writing or ticket put upon manufactured goods to distinguish them from others.3) Mark or marc, denotes a weight used in several parts of Europe, and for several commodities, especially gold and silver. When gold and silver are sold by the mark, it is divided into twenty-four carats. 4) Mark is also in England a money of accounts, and in some other countries a coin.
Seal
To mark a document with a seal; to authenticate or make binding by affixing a seal. Court seal, corporate seal.
Court
A body in government to which the administration of justice is delegated.
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Sea
The ocean; the great mass of waters which surrounds the land, and which probably extends from pole to pole, covering nearly three quarters of the globe. Waters within the ebb and flow of the tide, are to be considered the sea.
Sea letter or sea brief
Maritime law. A document which should be found on board of every neutral ship; it specifies the nature and quantity of the cargo, the place from whence it comes, and its destination.
Sea shore
Property. That space of land, on the border of the sea, which is alternately covered and left dry, by the rising and falling of the tide or, in other words, that space of land between high and low water mark.
Sea weed
A species of grass which grows in the sea.
Sea worthiness
Merchant law. The ability of a ship or other vessel to make a sea voyage with probable safety: there is, in every insurance, whether on ship or goods, an implied warranty that the ship shall be worthy when she sails on the voyage insured; that is, that she shall be "tight, staunch, and strong, properly manned, provided with all necessary stores, and in all respects fit for the intended voyage."
Seal
Seal of the united states
Government. The seal used by the United States in congress assembled, shall be the seal of the United States, viz.: ARMS, pale-ways of thirteen pieces argent and gules; a chief azure; the escutcheon on the breast of the American eagle displayer proper, holding in his dexter talon, an olive branch, and in his sinister, a bundle of thirteen arrows, all proper, and in his beak a scroll, inscribed with this motto,
Sealing
The closure of court records to inspection, except to the parties.
Sealing of a verdict
Practice. The putting a verdict in writing, and placing it in an envelop, which is sealed. To relieve jurors after they have agreed, it is not unusual for the counsel to agree that the jury shall seal their verdict, and then separate. When the court is again in session, the jury come in and give their verdict, in all respects as if it had not been sealed, and a juror may dissent from it, if since the sealing, he has honestly changed his mind.
Seal-office
English practice. The office at which certain judicial writs are sealed with the prerogative seal, and without which they are of no authority.
Seaman
A sailor; a mariner; one whose business is navigation.
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Mark
This term has several acceptations: 1) It is a sign traced on paper or parchment, which stands in the place of a signature, usually made by persons who cannot write. 2) It is the sign, writing or ticket put upon manufactured goods to distinguish them from others.3) Mark or marc, denotes a weight used in several parts of Europe, and for several commodities, especially gold and silver. When gold and silver are sold by the mark, it is divided into twenty-four carats. 4) Mark is also in England a money of accounts, and in some other countries a coin.
Seal
To mark a document with a seal; to authenticate or make binding by affixing a seal. Court seal, corporate seal.
Court
A body in government to which the administration of justice is delegated.
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Sea
The ocean; the great mass of waters which surrounds the land, and which probably extends from pole to pole, covering nearly three quarters of the globe. Waters within the ebb and flow of the tide, are to be considered the sea.
Sea letter or sea brief
Maritime law. A document which should be found on board of every neutral ship; it specifies the nature and quantity of the cargo, the place from whence it comes, and its destination.
Sea shore
Property. That space of land, on the border of the sea, which is alternately covered and left dry, by the rising and falling of the tide or, in other words, that space of land between high and low water mark.
Sea weed
A species of grass which grows in the sea.
Sea worthiness
Merchant law. The ability of a ship or other vessel to make a sea voyage with probable safety: there is, in every insurance, whether on ship or goods, an implied warranty that the ship shall be worthy when she sails on the voyage insured; that is, that she shall be "tight, staunch, and strong, properly manned, provided with all necessary stores, and in all respects fit for the intended voyage."
Seal
Seal of the united states
Government. The seal used by the United States in congress assembled, shall be the seal of the United States, viz.: ARMS, pale-ways of thirteen pieces argent and gules; a chief azure; the escutcheon on the breast of the American eagle displayer proper, holding in his dexter talon, an olive branch, and in his sinister, a bundle of thirteen arrows, all proper, and in his beak a scroll, inscribed with this motto,
Sealing
The closure of court records to inspection, except to the parties.
Sealing of a verdict
Practice. The putting a verdict in writing, and placing it in an envelop, which is sealed. To relieve jurors after they have agreed, it is not unusual for the counsel to agree that the jury shall seal their verdict, and then separate. When the court is again in session, the jury come in and give their verdict, in all respects as if it had not been sealed, and a juror may dissent from it, if since the sealing, he has honestly changed his mind.
Seal-office
English practice. The office at which certain judicial writs are sealed with the prerogative seal, and without which they are of no authority.
Seaman
A sailor; a mariner; one whose business is navigation.
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