Cruise
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
<A voyage undertaken for a given purpose; a voyage for the purpose of making captures jure belli.
2 Gall. 538.
A voyage or expedition in quest of vessels or fleets of the enemy which may be expected to sail in any particular track at acertain season of the year. The region in which these cruises arc performed is usually termed the “rendezvous,” or “eruising latitude.”
Bouvier.
Imports a definite place, as well as time of commencement and termination, unless such construction is repelled by the context. When not otherwise specially agreed, a cruise begins and ends in the country to which a ship belongs, and from which she derives her commission.
2 Gall. 526.