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CARGO |
Ship’s freight |
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AFFREIGHT |
To hire, as a ship, for the transportation of goods
or freight. |
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MOSES |
A large flatboat, used in the West Indies for taking freight
from shore to ship. |
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LADING |
That which lades or constitutes a load or cargo; freight;
burden; as, the lading of a ship. |
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SHIP |
By extension, in commercial usage, to commit to any
conveyance for transportation to a distance; as, to ship freight by
railroad. |
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FREIGHT |
That with which anything in fraught or laden for
transportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a
railroad, etc.; as, a freight of cotton; a full freight. |
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HYPOTHECATION |
A contract whereby, in consideration of money
advanced for the necessities of the ship, the vessel, freight, or cargo
is made liable for its re... |
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TON |
A certain weight or quantity of merchandise, with reference to
transportation as freight; as, six hundred weight of ship bread in
casks, seven ... |
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BOTTOMRY |
A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the
owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the
ship (and sometime... |