单词 | navigation act |
释义 | > as lemmasnavigation act navigation act n. now historical any one of a number of legal enactments regulating navigation, shipping, or seaborne trade, esp. that of 1651 intended to restrict imports from the Netherlands (the U.K. acts were abolished in 1849). ΚΠ 1680–3 S. Pepys Naval Minutes (1926) 165 When was the Act of Navigation first passed?] 1720 A. B. (title) A Letter to a Member of Parliament, in relation to the Bill now depending, for the Repeal of a Clause in the Navigation Act. 1729 J. Swift Let. to Archbishop of Dublin conc. Weavers in Wks. (1765) xvi. 13 It will be enough to mention the entire want of trade, the navigation-act executed with the utmost rigor, the..discouragement of agriculture. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Navigation Acts, various statutes by which the legislature of Great Britain has in a certain degree restricted the intercourse of foreign vessels with her own ports. 1991 Parl. Hist. 10 145 On the second reading of the repeal of the Navigation Acts, 356 peers either voted in person or proxied or paired. < as lemmas |
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