A general dictionary of commerce, trade and manufactures: exhibiting their present state in every part of the world; and carefully compiled from the latest and best authorities |
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Page 51 - House, by themselves or some agent or agents for that purpose duly authorised, signify to the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, or to the Governor and Company of Merchants of Great Britain trading to the South Seas...
Page 145 - flotsam is when a ship is sunk, or otherwise perished, and the goods float on the sea; jetsam is when the ship is in danger of being sunk, and to lighten the ship the goods are cast into the sea, and afterwards notwithstanding the ship perish. Lagan...
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Page 50 - The trade of a joint stock company is always managed by a court of directors. This court, indeed, is frequently subject, in many respects, to the control of a general court of proprietors. But the greater part of those...
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| Title | A general dictionary of commerce, trade and manufactures: exhibiting their present state in every part of the world; and carefully compiled from the latest and best authorities Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature 1450-1850 Making of the modern economy |
| Author | Thomas Mortimer |
| Publisher | Richard Phillips, 1810 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 29 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 1220 pages |
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