单词 | register act |
释义 | > as lemmasregister act register act n. now historical any of several acts, dating from the late 17th cent., that made provision for the registration of the ships and seamen of the British merchant navy.The first Act of 1696 provided for a voluntary register of seamen. Though tried in the late 17th cent. and the mid 19th cent. as a means of augmenting the Navy in time of war, the registration of seamen was never successful, and was abandoned. The first effective Act for the registration of ships was passed in 1786, from which date registration has been continuous and is still required by law. The Merchant Shipping Act (1854, revised 1894) consolidated previous acts, and is the basis of the modern system. See R. Temperley Merchant Shipping Acts (ed. 3) (1922) pp. 156–7. ΚΠ 1777 London Mag. June 294/1 No objects had been more fully considered, or more wisely provided for, than the encouragement of seamen and the manning of the navy; more than twenty different acts, to answer those purposes, having passed from the time of the register act in 1696. 1814 Q. Rev. Jan. 469 As the governors and principal officers of customs in India are under the East India Company and not officers of the crown, and therefore not described in the register act, such certificates have been withheld. 1840 Shee Abbott's Merchant Ships (ed. 6) 58 The old Register Acts contained no provision for registering ships in the territories under the government of the East India Company. 1901 Times 17 Dec. 14/2 The plaintiff had taken possession of a stranded ship under a transfer void for non-compliance with the Register Acts. 1955 T. S. Ashton Econ. Hist. England: 18th Cent. v. 144 In 1760..the real tonnage might have been ‘full fifty per cent above the reputed’. In 1786, however, the Register Act sought to correct the disparity. 1987 H. J. Bourguignon Sir William Scott (2004) ii. 56 Two poorly drafted statutes, Lord Liverpool's Register Acts, which concerned registration of ships. < as lemmas |
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