Foreign port
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
A foreign port is properly one exclusively within, the jurisdiction of a foreign nation, hence one without the United States.
King v. Parks, 19 Johns. (N. Y.) 375 ; Bigley v. New York & P. R. S. S. Co. (D. C.) 105 Fed. 74.
But the term is also applied to a port in any state other than the state where the vessel belongs or her owner resides.
The Canada (D. CO 7 Fed. l24; The Lulu, 10 Wall. 200, 19 L. Ed. 906; Negus v. Simpson, 99 Mass. 393.