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Libelant :: Libelant (n.) One who libels; one who institutes a suit in an ecclesiastical or admiralty court.

Admiralty :: Admiralty (n.) The department or officers having authority over naval affairs generally.

Black Book :: Black book () A book of admiralty law, of the highest authority, compiled in the reign of Edw. III..

Apostle :: Apostle (n.) A brief letter dimissory sent by a court appealed from to the superior court, stating the case, etc.; a paper sent up on appeals in the admiralty courts..

Admiral :: Admiral (n.) A handsome butterfly (Pyrameis Atalanta) of Europe and America. The larva feeds on nettles.

Rank :: Rank (n. & v.) Grade of official standing, as in the army, navy, or nobility; as, the rank of general; the rank of admiral..

Admiralty :: Admiralty (n.) The office or jurisdiction of an admiral.

Pacha :: Pacha () The chief admiral of the Turkish fleet.

Sentence :: Sentence (n.) In civil and admiralty law, the judgment of a court pronounced in a cause; in criminal and ecclesiastical courts, a judgment passed on a criminal by a court or judge; condemnation pronounced by a judgical tribunal; doom. In common law, the term is exclusively used to denote the judgment in criminal cases..

Stipulation :: Stipulation (n.) A material article of an agreement; an undertaking in the nature of bail taken in the admiralty courts; a bargain.

Admiral :: Admiral (n.) A naval officer of the highest rank; a naval officer of high rank, of which there are different grades. The chief gradations in rank are admiral, vice admiral, and rear admiral. The admiral is the commander in chief of a fleet or of fleets..

Admiralty :: Admiralty (n.) The court which has jurisdiction of maritime questions and offenses.

Admiralties :: Admiralties (pl. ) of Admiralt.

Respondent :: Respondent (n.) One who answers in certain suits or proceedings, generally those which are not according to the course of the common law, as in equity and admiralty causes, in petitions for partition, and the like; -- distinquished from appellant..

Prisage :: Prisage (n.) The share of merchandise taken as lawful prize at sea which belongs to the king or admiral.

Decree :: Decree (n.) A decision, order, or sentence, given in a cause by a court of equity or admiralty..

Ammiral :: Ammiral (n.) An obsolete form of admiral.

Commodore :: Commodore (n.) A captain commanding a squadron, or a division of a fleet, or having the temporary rank of rear admiral..

Admiralship :: Admiralship (n.) The office or position oaf an admiral; also, the naval skill of an admiral..

Winter''s Bark :: Winter's bark () The aromatic bark of tree (Drimys, / Drymis, Winteri) of the Magnolia family, which is found in Southern Chili. It was first used as a cure for scurvy by its discoverer, Captain John Winter, vice admiral to sir Francis Drake, in 1577..

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