Custom-House
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
In administrative law. The house or office where commodities are entered for importation or exportation; where the duties, bounties, or drawbacks payable or receivable upon such importation or exportation are paid or received; and where ships are cleared out, etc.
Custom-house broker
One whose occupation it is, as the agent of others, to arrange entries and other custom-house papers, or transact business, at any port of entry, relating to the importation or exportation of goods, wares, or merchandise. 14 St. at L Custom is the best interpreter of the law.
4 Inst. 75; 2 Eden, 74; McKeen v. Delaney, 5 Cranch, 32, 3 L. Ed. 25; Mc-Ferran v. Powers, 1 Serg. & R. (Pat) 106.