Registered tonnage
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
The registered tonnage of a vessel is the capacity or cubical contents of the ship, or the amount of weight which she wlll carry, as ascertained in some proper manner and entered on an official register or record.
See Reck v. Phœnix Ins. Co.., 54 Hun, 637, 7 N. Y. Supp. 492; Wheaton v. Weston (I). C.) 128 Fed. 153 .