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Marine leagne

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

Black's Law Dictionary

A measure of distance commonly employed at sea, being equal to one-twentieth part of a degree of latitude, or three geographical or nautical miles.

See Rockland, etc., S. Co., v. Fessenden, 79 Me. 140, 8 Atl. 552.