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Definition of Supercargoes
1. supercargo [n] - See also: supercargo
Lexicographical Neighbors of Supercargoes
Literary usage of Supercargoes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Opium Question by Samuel Warren (1840)
"What the Privy Council meant to do, was probably to vest in the Superintendents,
by law, all the powers theretofore exercised by the supercargoes. ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Agency in Contract and Tort: Including Special by George Louis Reinhard (1902)
"supercargoes.—"In maritime law, a person specially employed by the owner of a
cargo to take charge ... supercargoes have complete control over the cargo and ..."
3. Zimmermann on Ocean Shipping by Erich Walter Zimmermann (1921)
"man instrumental in placing supercargoes on many of the new freight vessels was Mr.
... This much mooted question of supercargoes, which has subjected me at ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The instructions of 1700 directed the supercargoes to send home 300 tubs of the
finer green tens and 80 tubs of bohea. In 1703 orders were given for "75000 ..."
5. Rights, Remedies, and Practice, at Law, in Equity, and Under the Codes: A by John Davison Lawson (1890)
"supercargoes. § 1428. The seamen — Rights and duties of — Contracts with. § 1429.
The seamen — Right to wages. § 1430. The seamen — What is and what is not ..."
6. A Concordance to the Works of Alexander Popeby Edwin Abbott by Edwin Abbott (1875)
"117 Thieves, supercargoes, Sharpers, and DS i. 72 Plums and Dt Shylock and his
Wife Л*. Í. 103 Directs. Then his nice taste d. our Operas D. ii. ..."
7. The Chinese War: An Account of All the Operations of the British Forces from by John Ouchterlony (1844)
"... CHAPTER I. Retrospective summary—Select committee of supercargoes— Chinese
prejudices respected—Change upon the appointment of a representative ..."
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