Port

A place for the lading and unlading of the cargoes of vessels, and the collection of duties or customs upon imports and exports. A place, either on the sea-coast or on a river, where ships stop for the purpose of loading and unloading, from whence they depart, and where they finish their voyages. The Wharf Case, 3 Bland (Md.) 361; Packwood v. Walden, 7 Marti N. S. (Lat) 88; Devato v. Barrels of Plumbago (D. Ct) 20 Fed. 515 ; Petrel Guano Co. v. Jarnette (C. C.) 45 Fed. 675; De Longue-mere v. Insurance Co., 10 Johns. (N. Y.) 125.

In French maritime law. Burden, (of a vessel;) site and capacity.

— Foreign port. 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.

— Home port. The port at which a vessel is registered or enrolled or where the owner resides.

— Port charges, dues, or tolls. Pecuniary exactions upon vessels avniling themselves of the commercial conveniences and privileges of a port.

— Port-greve. The chief magistrate of a sea-port town is sometimes so called.

— Port of delivery. In maritime law. The port which is to be the terminus of any particular voyage, and where the vessel is to unlade or deliver her cargo, as distinguished from any port at which she may touch, during the voyage, for other purposes. The Two Catharines, 24 Fed. Cas. 429.

— Port of destination. In maritime law and marine insurance, the term includes bath ports which constitute the termini of the voyage, the home-port and the foreign port to which the vessel is consigned, as well as any usual stopping places for the receipt or discharge of cargo. Gookin v. New England Mut. Marine Ins. Go., 12 Gray (Mass.) 501, 74 Am. Dec. 609.
—Port of discharge, in a policy of marine insurance, means the place where the substantial part of the cargo is discharged, although there is an intent to complete the discharge at another basin. Bramhall v. Sun Mut. Ins. Co., 104 Mass. 510, 6 Am. Rep. 261.

— Port of entry. One of the ports designated by law, at which a custom-house or revenue office is established for the execution of the laws imposing duties on vessels and importations of goods. Cross v. Harrison, 16 How. 164, 14 L. Ed. 889.

— Port-reeve, or port-warden. An officer maintained in some ports to oversee the administration of the local regulations ; a sort of harbor-master.

— Port-risk. In marine insurance. A risk upon a vessel while lying in port, and before she bas taken her departure upon another voyage. Nelson v. Sun Mut. Ins. Co., 71 N. Y. 459.