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The King's Regulations (first published in 1731 and known as the Queen's Regulations when the monarch is female) is a collection of orders and regulations in force in the Royal Navy, British Army, Royal Air Force, and Commonwealth Realm Forces (where the same person as on the British throne is also their separate head of state), forming guidance for officers of these armed services in all ...
The Admiralty was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom [1] [2] responsible for the command of the Royal Navy until 1964, historically under its titular head, the Lord High Admiral – one of the Great Officers of State.
Shipping was one of the earliest channels of commerce, and rules for resolving maritime trade disputes were developed early. An ancient example was the Rhodian law (Nomos Rhodion Nautikos), of which no extensive written specimen has survived, but which is alluded to in other legal texts (Roman and Byzantine legal codes), and later the customs of the Consulate of the Sea and the Hanseatic League.
In common statutory usage the British possessions include British Overseas Territories, and the Commonwealth realms but not protectorates. [1] [2] [3] British admiralty law has a less expansive meaning under the Merchant Shipping Act 1995, where a "relevant British possession", includes the Crown Dependencies (the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands) and "any colony" (the self-governing ...
The act states that prosecutions for a breach of the navigation acts should be tried in the court of the high admiral of England, in any of the vice-admiralty courts, or in any court of record in England, but while the act again hints at the jurisdiction of the admiralty courts, it does not explicitly provide for them.
[1]: 162 The cruisers were aimed at protecting British supply lines. Nine first-class cruisers of the Edgar class, twenty-nine second-class cruisers of the Apollo and Astraea classes and four third-class cruisers of the Pearl class were provided. [1]: 161 The other eighteen torpedo gunboats served to support and protect the main battle fleet.
Attachment under Rule B is similar to the procedure of saisie conservatoire available under French law. [4] It has its origins in the former British procedure of admiralty attachment, [5] which was still in existence at the time of the American Revolution but fell into disuse in the United Kingdom at the end of the 18th Century. [6]
The Merchant Seamen Act 1728 (2 Geo. 2. c. 36) was a significant piece of British legislation passed in 1729. The Act was originally stipulated to run five years but was renewed periodically until it was made perpetual by 2 Geo. 3. c. 5 in 1761. [1]