In this Act unless the context otherwise requires—
“abandonment”
means the surrender, relinquishment, disclaimer, or cession of property or of rights or the voluntary relinquishment of all right, title, claim and possession, with the intention of not reclaiming it;
“barratry”
means an act committed by a master or mariners of a vessel for some fraudulent or unlawful purpose contrary to their duty to the owner and resulting in injury to the owner;
“bottomry”
means a contract by which the owner of a ship borrows for use, equipment, or repair of the vessel, and for a definite term, and pledges the ship or the keel or bottom of the ship or part of it as security, it being stipulated that if the ship is lost in the specified voyage, or during the limited time, by any of the perils enumerated, the lender shall lose his or her money;
“contingent interest”
means an interest which depends for its effect upon an event which may or may not happen;
“currency point”
has the meaning assigned to it in the First Schedule to this Act;
“defeasible interest”
means an insurable interest which ceases during the currency of the voyage;
“floating policy”
has the meaning assigned to it in section
29
;
“freight”
includes the profit derivable by a shipowner from the employment of his or her ship to carry his or her own goods or movables as well as freight payable by a third party, but does not include passage money;
“hypothecation”
means the pledging of property as security or collateral for a debt;
“insurable property”
means any ship or movables capable of being insured against maritime perils;
“maritime perils”
means the perils consequent on or incidental to the navigation of the sea and inland waters, namely, perils of the seas and inland waters, fire, war, pirates, rovers, thieves, captures, seizures, restraints and detainment of foreign governments and peoples, jettisons and barratry, and any other perils of the like kind or which may be designated by the policy and perils of land incidental to sea voyage;
“Minister”
means the Minister to whom the functions of the Minister under this Act have been assigned by the President;
“movables”
means any movable tangible property other than the ship, including money, valuable securities and other documents;
“mutual assurance”
has the meaning assigned to it by section
85
;
“policy”
means a policy expressing a contract of marine insurance;
“respondentia”
means hypothecation of the cargo or goods on board a ship as security for the repayment of a loan.
PART IJ—MARINE INSURANCE.