bottomry

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An early form of maritime contract in which the owner of a ship could borrow money using the ship as collateral. countable,uncountable
    — Section 10 states that, ‘The lender of money on bottomry and respondentia has an insurable interest in respect of the loan’. A lender on ‘bottomry’ is, as its name suggests, a person who advances money to a shipowner on the security of (the bottom [of]) the ship.

词形变化

bottomries plural

词源

From bottom + -ry; see bottom (“hull”).
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