Dock
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
The enclosed space occupied by prisoners in a criminal court The space between two wharves.
See City ton v. Lecraw, 17 How. (D S.) B4, 15 L. Ed. 118.
The owner of a dork is liable to a person who, by Ins invitation, and in the exercise of due '-are, places a vessel in the dock, for injury to the vessel caused by a defect thereon which the owner negligently allows to exist; Nickerson V. Tirrell, 127 Mass. 236.