Bottomry Bond
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
The instrument embodying the contract or agreement of bottomry. The true definition of a bottomry bond, in the sense of the general maritime law, and independent of the peculiar regulations of the positive codes of different commercial nations, is that itis acoutract for a loan of money on the bottom of the ship, at an extraordinary interest, upon maritime risks, to be borne by the lender for a voyags, or for a definite period.
2 Sum, 157.