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Foreign-going ship

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

Black's Law Dictionary

By the English merchant shipping act, 1854, (17 & 18 Viet. c. 104,) § 2, any ship employed in trading, going between some place or places in the United Kingdom and some place or places situate beyond the following limits, that is to say: The coasts of the Uhited Kingdom, the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Sark, Alderney, and Man. and the continent of Europe, between the river Elbe and Brest, inclusive. Home-trade ship includes every ship employed in trading and going between places within the last-mentioned limits.