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Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: 1  Unseat(verb) to throw from one's seat; to deprive of a seat. 2  Unseat(verb) specifically, to deprive of the right to sit in a legislative body, as for fraud in election.
In other words, negligence focuses on acts of the seaman's employer , and unseaworthiness focuses on the condition or inadequacy of the vessel itself. Unlike the Jones Act claims, which is against the seaman's employer, an unseaworthiness claim is made against the vessel's owner. In many cases those actions will be against the same party. A unseaworthiness claim will bring the owner into a lawsuit as an additional source of recovery for the seaman.