Approach
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
RIGHT OF. In International Law. The right to draw near to a vessol in order to ascertain the nationality of its flag. In The Marianna Flora, 11 Wheat (U. S.) 43, 44, 6 L. Ed. 405, it was held that the right of approach in time of peace was indispensable for the exercise by public vessels of their authority to arrest pirates and other offenders. Kent understood it to be equivalent to the right of visit (q. v.).
1 Kent 153.
At present the right of approach has no existence apart from the right of visit. See Visit; Search.