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Mooring

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

In maritime law

Anchoring'or making fast to the shore or dock; the securing or confining a vessel in a particular station, as by cables and anchors or by a line or chain run to the wharf. A vessel is "moored in safety," within the meaning of a policy of marine insurance, when she is thus moored to a wharf or dock, free from any immediate danger from any of the periis insured against.

See 1 Phll. Ins. 968; Walsh v. New York Floating Dry Dock Co., 8 Daly (N. Y.) 387; Flandreau v. Elsworth, 9 Misc. Rep. 340, 29 N. Y. Supp. 694; Bramhall v. Sun Mut. Ins. Ch, 104 Mass. 516, 6 Am. Rep. 261