Definition of Bottomries

1. Noun. (plural of bottomry) ¹

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Definition of Bottomries

1. bottomry [n] - See also: bottomry

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bottomries

bottomfeeding
bottoming
bottoming cycle
bottomland
bottomlands
bottomless
bottomless pit
bottomless pits
bottomlessly
bottomlessness
bottommost
bottomness
bottomonia
bottomonium
bottomoniums
bottomries (current term)
bottomry
bottoms
bottoms up
bottomy
bottonium
bottony
botts
botty
botty burp
botty burps
botuliform
botulin
botulinal
botulinic

Literary usage of Bottomries

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit Court of the United by Charles Levi Woodbury, George Minot (1852)
"The general description of bottomries in most of the elementary treatises fortifies this view. It defines them as given for advances to aid in fitting out ..."

2. A Summary of the Roman Civil Law: Illustrated by Commentaries on and ...by Patrick Mac Chombaich De Colquhoun by Patrick Mac Chombaich De Colquhoun (1854)
"Regulation of charter-parties, bills of lading, contracts of charterparties, partnership or joint ventures, bottomries, average, salvage, ..."

3. A Treatise on the Principles of Indemnity in Marine Insurance, Bottomry and by William Benecke (1824)
"... as they now stand, are exactly adapted lo bottomries of the second class upon goods, bottomries of the first class will require a stipulation, ..."

4. Reports of the First Conference, Held at Brussels, 1873, and of the Second by The International Law Association, International Law Association (1900)
"... such as wages, charter-parties, bills of lading, mortgages, and so-called bottomries, entered into previously to the voyage, and also it may be the ..."

5. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1889)
"... bottomries, charter-parties, bills of lading, bills, bonds, notes, receipts, evidences of debt, releases and satisfactions of mortgage, judgment and ..."

6. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1865)
"at its destined termination in safety ; or, as it is sometimes provided in modern bottomries, in case that the ship is in safety on a ..."

7. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence by Simon Greenleaf, Simon Greenleaf Croswell (1892)
"... and bottomries ; contracts of material-men ; seamen's wages ; contracts between part-owners ; averages, contributions, and jettisons ; und policies of ..."

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