Buoy — Law Dictionary

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

A piece of wood, or an empty barrel, or other thing, moored at a particular place, and floating on the water, to show the place where it is shallow, to mark

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

A piece of wood, or an emptg rel, or other iiiin_r. moored at a particular place and floating on the wafo w the place where it is shallow, to mark the channel, or to indicate the danger there is to navigation. The act of congress approved the 28th September, 1850, enacts that all buoys shall be. so colored and lettered that in passing up the coast or up a harbor, red buoys with even numbers shall be on the right, black buoys with uneven numbers on the left aud with red and black stripes on either hand. In channels with alternate black and white stripes.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In maritime law. A piece of wood or cork or a barrel, raft or other thing, made secure and floating upon a stream or bay, intended as a guide and warning to mariners, by marking a spot where the water is shallow or where there is a reef or other danger to navigation or to mark the ceurse of a devious channel.