Collision
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
[Lat. collisio, from collidere, to dash together; Fr. abordage.'] A dashing, or violently running together. Usually applied to the running foul of vessels. Sometimes distinguished from a Uision, (q. V.) Jacobsen's Sea Laws, 324. Strykius de Collis.
Nav. cited i Ud. 3 Kent's Com. 230, 302, note. Abbott on Ship. part 3, ch. 1.