Branches of the High Court of Admiralty, instituted for carrying on the like duties in several of our colonies, prize-courts, &c. (See admiralty court // admiralty, high court of.)
vĭce and vĭcem, v. vicis. ...
A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
vice, vicem see vicis. ...
An Elementary Latin Dictionary
·noun A gripe or grasp. II. Vice ·vt To hold or squeeze with a vice, or as if with a vice. III. Vi...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·noun The system of jurisprudence of admiralty courts. II. Admiralty ·noun The office or jurisdicti...
An office for the administration of naval affairs, presided over by a lord high-admiral, whether the...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·pl of Court-martial. ...
Not responsible for money transmitted under proper precautions, and in the usual course of business,...
·adj Of or pertaining to a viceroy or viceroyalty. ...
The rank in the fleet next to that of an admiral; he carries his flag at the fore. ...
An officer appointed in sea-ports to aid the consul in affairs relating to merchant vessels. If ther...
A screw. ...
The constitution of this court relatively to the legislative power of the king in council, is analog...
Formerly one who, having served the appointed time, and passed his examination for lieutenant, was a...
See black-book of the admiralty. ...
Rights, or rather perquisites, which flowed originally from the king by grant or usage, and now rese...
An imaginary record of offences. Also, a document of great authority in naval law, as it contains th...
In general the crown appoints five or seven commissioners for executing the office of lord high-admi...
Now termed receivers of wreck (which see). ...
A drunken man that pisses under the table into his companions' shoes. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose