common seal
Britishnoun
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It’s also a vital food source for many fish, sharks, marine mammals and birds — namely the common seal, California sea lion, Chinook salmon, blue shark, Brandt’s cormorant — and, of course, humans.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 2022
They were both allowed to assure on ships at sea, and going to sea, and to lend money on bottomry; and each was to have "perpetual succession" and a common seal.
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
Generally speaking, all corporate acts affecting strangers must be performed under the common seal; acts of internal administration affecting only the corporators, need not be under seal.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various
Letters patent were drawn up to that effect under the common seal, and taken by Sir Roger himself to Windsor.
From London and the Kingdom - Volume I by Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson) Sharpe
He found, that to facilitate their fraud, they had got a counterpart of the common seal, with which they certified the receipts.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 454 Volume 18, New Series, September 11, 1852 by William Chambers
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