Crew List
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
In maritime law
A list of the crew of a vessel; one of a ship's papers. This instrument is required by act of Congress, and sometimes by treaties.
Act of Congress, March 3, 1813.
It is necessary for the protection of the crews of every vessel, in the course of the voyage, during a war abroad.
Jacobsen's Sea Laws, 66, 69, note.