Tonnage
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
The capacity of a vessel for carrying freight or other loads, calculated in tons. But the way of estimating the tonnage varies in different countries. In England, tonnage denotes the actual weight in tons which the vessel can safely carry; in America, her carrying capacity estimated from the cubic dimensions of the hold.
See Roberts v. Opdyke, 40 N. Y. 259.
The "tonnage" of a vessel is her capacity to carry cargo, and a charter of "the whole tonnage" of a ship transfers to the charterer only the space necessary for that purpose. Timing v. Insurance Co...
103 Mass. 405, 4 Am. Rep. 567.
The tonnage of a vessel is her intemni cubical capacity, in tons.
Inman S. S. Co. v. Tinker, 94 U. S. 238, 24 L. Ed. 118.