Outfit
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
A word of originally limited meaning, as applied to different trades and in its application to vessels; but it has acquired an enlarged meaning in the hands of merchants engaged in wlialing voyages, adapted to their growing trade. As thus used, " outfits " is a word not clearly defined and strictly limited in its import, but is subject to be explained by proof of usage in the whaling business, and of what are generally regarded as outfits by persons in that business.
Macy v. Whaling Ins. Co., 9 Mete. (Mass.) 354, 365.
States to a minister plenipotentiary or charg€ des affaires, on going from the United States to any foreign country.
Boumer.