Foreign Vessel
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
A vessel owned by residents in or sailing under the fiag of a foreign nation. It does not mean a vessel in which foreigners domiciled in the United States have an interest; The Sally, 1 Gal. 58, Fed. Cas. No. 12,257. An omission in the registry and enrollment of an American vessel does not make her foreign, but, at best, only deprives her of her American privileges.
F'ox V. Paine, Crabbe 271, Fed. Cas. No. 5,- 014.
See Flag. The patent laws were not intended to apply to and govern a vessel of a foreign, friendly nation; Brown v. Duchesne, 19 How. (U. S.) 183, 16 L. Ed. 595.