Legal glossary
“free board”
Defined in 1 Acts. A definition holds for the Act that gives it; the same word can mean something else in another Act.
The Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 · s. 3
(14) "free board" means the distance measured vertically downwards, amidships, from the upper edge of the deck line to the upper edge of the related load line;]
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