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Allision

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Running one vessel against another

To be distinguished from collision, which denotes the running of two vessels against each other. The distinction is not very carefully observed, but collision is used to denote cases strictly of allision.