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WHARFINGER. One who owns or keeps a wharf1, for the purpose of receiving and shipping2 merchandise to or from it, for hire.
2. Like a warehouseman, (q.v.) a wharfinger is responsible for ordinary neglect, and is therefore required to take ordinary, care of goods entrusted3 to him as such. The responsibility of a wharfinger begins when he acquires, and ends when he ceases to have the custody4 of the goods in that capacity.
3. When he begins and ceases to have such custody depends generally upon the usages of trade and of the business. When goods are delivered at a wharf, and the wharfinger has agreed, expressly or by implication, to take the custody of them, his responsibility commences; but a mere5 delivery at the wharf, without such assent6, does not make him liable. 3 Campb. R. 414; 4 Campb. R. 72; 6 Cowen, R. 757. When goods are in the wharfinger's possession to be sent on board of a vessel7 for a voyage, as soon as he delivers the possession and the care of them to the proper officers of the vessel, although they are not actually removed, he is, by the usages of trade, deemed exonerated8 from any further responsibility. 5 Esp. R. 41; Story, Bailm. §453 Abbott on Shipp. 226; Molloy, B. 2. 2, s. 2; Roccus, Not. 88; Dig. 9, 4, 3.
WHEEL. The punishment of the wheel was formerly9 to put a criminal on a wheel, and then to break his bones until he expired. This barbarous punishment was never used in the United States, and it has been abolished in almost every civilized10 country.
WHELPS. The young of certain animals of a base nature, or ferae naturae.
2. It is a rule that when no larceny11 can be committed of any creatures of a base nature, which are ferae naturae, though tame and reclaimed12, it cannot be committed of the young of such creatures in the nest, kennel13, or den14. 3 Inst. 109; 1 Russ. on Cr. 153.
3. The owner of the land is, however, considered to have a qualified15 property in such animals, ratione impotentia. 2 Bl. Com. 394.
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n.码头,停泊处 | |
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shipping
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n.船运(发货,运输,乘船) | |
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entrusted
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v.委托,托付( entrust的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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custody
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n.监护,照看,羁押,拘留 | |
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mere
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adj.纯粹的;仅仅,只不过 | |
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assent
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v.批准,认可;n.批准,认可 | |
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vessel
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n.船舶;容器,器皿;管,导管,血管 | |
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exonerated
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v.使免罪,免除( exonerate的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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adv.从前,以前 | |
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a.有教养的,文雅的 | |
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larceny
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n.盗窃(罪) | |
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reclaimed
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adj.再生的;翻造的;收复的;回收的v.开拓( reclaim的过去式和过去分词 );要求收回;从废料中回收(有用的材料);挽救 | |
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kennel
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n.狗舍,狗窝 | |
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n.兽穴;秘密地方;安静的小房间,私室 | |
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qualified
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adj.合格的,有资格的,胜任的,有限制的 | |
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