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

Black's Law Dictionary

A ship's Journal. It contains a minute account of the ship's course, with a short history of every occurrence during the voyage. 1 Marsh. Ins. 312. The part of the log-book relating to transactions in the harbor is termed the "harbor log;" that relating to what happens at sea, the "sea log." Young, Naut Diet

Official log-hook. A log-book in a certain form, and containing certain specified entries required by 17 & 18 Viet. c. 104, §§ 280-282, to be kept by all British merchant ships, except those exclusively engaged in the coasting trade.