Passive Trust

See "Trust." PASSIVE USE A permissive use (g. v.) PASSPORT (Pr. passer, to pass, port, harbor or gate). In Maritime Law. A paper containing a permission from the neutral state to the captain or master of a ship or vessel to proceed on the voyage proposed. It usually contains his name and residence, the name, property, description, tonnage, and destination of the ship, the nature and quantity of the cargo, the place from whence it comes, and its destination, with such other matters as the practice of the place requires. It is also called a "sea brief," or "sea letter." But Marshall distinguishes sea letter from passport, which latter, he says, is intended to protect the ship, while the former relates to the cargo, destination, etc.

See Jacobsen, Sea Laws, 66, note.

This document is indispensably necessary in time of war for the safety of every neutral vessel. Marsh. Ins. bk.

1, c. 9, § 6, 317, 406b.

A Mediterranean pass or protection against the Barbary powers. Jacobsen, Sea Laws, 66, note; Act Cong. 1796. ——In International Law. A document hostilities, Wheaton, Int. Law, 475: 1 Kent Comm. 161; 6 Wheat. (U. S.) 8. An official letter of identification, given to travelers in most countries of continental Europe. These are intended to protect them on their journey from all molestation while they are obedient to tiie laws. Passports are also granted by the secretary of state to persons traveling abroad, certifying that they are citizens of the United States.

9 Pet. (U. S.) 692. See 1 Kent, Comm. 162, 182; Merlin, Repert.

PASTO (Spanish; from Lat. pastua, g. V.) In Spanish law. Feeding; pasture; a right of pasture. White, New Recop. bk.

2, tit. 1, c. 6, § 4.