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Caput Portus

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

In old English law

The head ofa port. The town to which a port belongs, and whieh gives the denomination to the port, and is the head of it, Hale de Jure Mar. pt. 2, (de portubus maris,) o.

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