Moderate Speed
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In admiralty law. As applied to a steam-vessel, “such speed only is moderate as will permit the steamer reasonably and effectually to avoid a collision by slackening speed, or by stopping and reversing, within the distance at which 40 approxching vesselcan beseen.”
35 Fed. Rep. 609; 39 I'ed. Rep. 480,