home port

Defined in 6 dictionaries — Case Law, Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)

Definitions from Case Law

From 78 U.S. 423 - St. Louis v. Ferry Co. · 1870Most cited · 176 citing opinions

The solution of the question, where her home port is, when it arises, depends wholly upon the locality of her owner's residence, and not upon the place of her enrolment

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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

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

The port where the owner of a ship resides.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Any port in which the owner happens to be with his vessel, in the United States, but in England, any port within the jurisdiction of the common-law courts of that island, if the owner resides in England. See 6 Dana (Ky.), 17, 32 Am. Dec. 54.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Any port within a state in which the owner of a ship resides. The question as to what constitutes a foreign port has usually arisen respecting the claims of material-men for supplies furnished to the master, qnd in this respect It has been held that the home port of a vessel does not necessarily imply the limits of the state in which her owner resides; The Merino, 9 Wheat (U. S.) 401, 6 L. Ed. 118; contra. The William and Emmeline, 1 Blatchf. & H. 66, Fed. Cas. No. 17,687, where Charleston, S. C., was held a foreign port in respect to New York. In England by the Mercantile Law Amendment Act it is provided that every port within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Islands of Man, Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, and Stark, and the islands adjacent to any one of them, being part of the dominions of Her Majesty, shall be deemed a home port; 19 & 20 Viet. c. 97. See BOTTOMBY; POBT.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

The port at which a vessel is registered or enrolled or where the owner resides.

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A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A port in a state in which the owner of a vessel resides,