Legal Terms
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Legal & commercial language (non-latin)
A
Accompt ("this deponents sole accompt" (HCA 13/68))
Advise ("lres of advise" (HCA 13/68))
Accounted ("commonly accounted reputed and taken")
Actuary ("one of the Actuaries of the Admiralty Court of Bridges")
Allegation ("an allegation given against him on that behalfe of..."
Ancient ("a shipp of about a hundred & fifty tonnes birthen & having a white Ancient in her poope" (HCA 13/73)
Answereth ("he answereth & acknowledgeth" (HCA 13/19))
Account ("transported to Dunkirke for the accompt and adventure of this deponents")
Allon (abbreviation for "allegation")
Arle (abbreviation for "article", see arles for "articles")
Arlate ("onely one of the fowre English ships arlate" (HCA 13/19))
B
Barter
C
Cargazoone
Cause of complaint ("y:e sd Edward Peascott Michaell Peascott & Edward Randall have without iust cause arrested him by warr:t out of this Co:rt to answere them in their p?dsed cause of complaint" HCA 13/128))
Charge ("they did freight and imploy their sayd five eighth parts upon their owne charge and Adventure as Owners & freighters of them" (HCA 13/73))
Colourable
Condemned ("in case the sayd shipp the Morning Starr or Golden Starr be condemned as prize)
Consideration ("for a valuable consideration" (HCA 13/73))
Cost ("at their owne Cost charge & adventure" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Credibly ("hath bin Credibly informed that the said Cowling was borne at or neere Rippon in Yorkeshire" (HCA 13/73))
D
Damnified ("the arlate Swift Parker & Harris & other her Owners were damnified" (HCA 13/73))
Dead fraighted
Denison ("he is a subiect of this Commonwealth and a denison of England")
Deponent
Designe ("The p:rmisses hee deposeth, being made privy to the said Designe and Voyage" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Dispoiled ("surprized & tooke the sayd shipp Lady ffrigott and her ladeing of Currants & dispoiled the Owners thereof the same" (HCA 13/73))
F
fflandrian ("a fflandrian man of warr")
I
Interrogate
Interrogatory (ies) ("Crosse Interries")
K
Knoweth ("knoweth beleiveth or hath heard")
L
Ladeing ("the ladeing unladeing & reladeing of the sayd shipp" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Letters of advice ("as hee was informed by lres of advise from Zante" (HCA 13/73))
Libell ("the posiccons of a libell given ag:t him" (XXXX); "Examined on the Libell" (HCA 13/73))
M
Make for them ("To the 12:th pretensed posicon they and either of them answere and accept the contents of this posicon soe far forth as the same doe make for them and not other wise" (HCA 13/125))
O
Overthrow ("endeavour the overthrowe of the voyage" (HCA 13/73))
P
Partye ("hee well knoweth all y:e partyes schedulate" (HCA/73); "she saith she favoureth both the partyes Litigant alike" (HCA 13/73))
Persuaded ("verily psuaded in his conscience")
Possession ("quiet and peaceful possession [of property, such as a ship]")
Posic(c)ons (alias Position) ("he doth not beleeve y:e sd posicons to be true")
Precedent ("his p:rcedent answeres" (HCA 13/19))
Precontest als. p:rcontest ("his precontest")
Predeposed
Pretended
Pretensed ("To 4:th 5:th and 6:th pretensed posicons" (HCA 13/125))
Producent
Protested ("the said Nortons bills being protested, the said ffactor had not moneyes to paye for the same and therefor could not nor would not lade them" (HCA 13/125))
R
Ranke (" the arlate Blaes da La Pina is a Spaniard a subiect of the King of Spayne a merchant Inhabitant of Sevill in Spayne and that he hath bene 30 yeares and upwards, and was and is a merchant of good ranke using to trade betweene Spaine and fflanders" (HCA 13/68)
Reall and true ("the sayd bill of sale is reall and the Contents thereof true")
Referreth ("he referreth himselfe to the Acts & Registry of this Court" (HCA 13/19): "To the 3.:d. hee cannot depose; saving hee referreth himselfe to his answer to the first Interrie, on y:e other part" (HCA 13/73))
Reladeing ("the ladeing unladeing & reladeing of the sayd shipp" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Rendent(s)
Registry (of the High Court of the Admiralty)
Risque (" for his the said John Scrother the producents accompt and risque" (HCA 13/68))
S
Schedulate (" this rendent being M:r & Comander of the ship the Peter arlate did hyer y:e respective marriners schedulate to serve in the sd ship y:e Peterfor the monethly wayges therein menconed" (HCA 137128))
Schedulated ("the said severall persons Schedulated" (HCA 13/125))
Schedule (" hee was not prsent att y:e forming and figuring the said two schedules arlate"; "the schedule in this article mentioned" (HCA 13/73))
Sign seale and deliver [a legal document, such as a will or contract] ("this deponent saw the sayd Samuel Travis sign seale and deliver the same as and for his Act and deed")
Stayed ("the sd vessell did sett saile from Naples with ?some goods that shee there tooke in, and in her course towards London was stayed & taken by some vessell of warre belonging to the ffrench as he hath heard & beleeveth & was carryed to S:t Margaretta, and was there detained for some tyme in which tyme he beleeved the S:t Massagrene used meanes to gett of y:e s:d shipp & goods" (HCA 13/128)
T
Teno:r ("the sayd Christia Cloppenburgh did signe three bills of lading for the same all of one teno:r" (HCA 13/68))
True owner ("true and lawfull owner and proprieto:r of y:e sayd goods")
Trucking ("desired the said Lopes to bee Supra Cargoe of the ship that should goe y:e sd Voyage, and to manage the ?Trucking, Selling, and Bartering away of the Outward Cargoe at the said West Indias (sic)" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
U
Unladeing ("the ladeing unladeing & reladeing of the sayd shipp" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
