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Passport

Ballentine's Law Dictionary · James A. Ballentine · 1916

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

A document entitling one to pass through a country in time of war; a document issued by a neutral government permitting a vessel to sail on a proposed voyage.

See 6 Wheat. (U. S.) 1, 5 L. Ed. 191.