SLAVE TRADE ACT 1873 - SECT 2 Interpretation.

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SLAVE TRADE ACT 1873 - SECT 2

Interpretation.

2. In this Act

Definitions rep. by SLR 1893 (No.2)

The term "vessel" means any vessel used in navigation:

The term "British possession" means any plantation, territory, settlement, or
place situate within Her Majesty's dominions, and not forming part of the
United Kingdom:

The term "governor" includes the officer for the time being administering the
government of any colony; and where there is a local governor or
lieutenant-governor under a governor-general, means the local governor or
lieutenant-governor...:

Definition rep. by SLR 1893 (No.2)

The term "foreign state" includes any foreign nation, people, tribe,
sovereign, prince, chief, or headman:

The term "vessel of a foreign state" means a vessel which is justly entitled
to claim the protection of the flag of a foreign state, or which would be so
entitled if she did not lose such protection by being engaged in the
slave trade:

The term "treaty" includes any convention, agreement, engagement, or
arrangement:

The term "slave trade" when used in relation to any particular treaty does not
include anything declared by such treaty not to be comprised in the term or in
such treaty:

The term "Vice-Admiralty Court" does not include any Vice-Admiralty Court
which for the time being has under its commission a limited jurisdiction only
in matters relating to the slave trade:

The term "British slave court" means the High Court of Admiralty of England,
every Vice-Admiralty Court in Her Majesty's dominions out of the United
Kingdom, and every East African Court for the time being within the meaning of
the Slave Trade (East African Courts) Act, 1873:

The term "slave court" means every British slave court, every mixed commission
or court established under any existing slave trade treaty, and the court of
any foreign state having jurisdiction to try and condemn a vessel engaged in
the slave trade:

The term "existing slave trade treaty" means a treaty made by or on behalf of
Her Majesty or Her Royal predecessors with any foreign state for the more
effectual suppression of the slave trade and in force at the passing of
this Act.

Visitation and seizure by cruisers, &c. of suspected slave ships.

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