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A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

The science, act or business of conducting vessels over water; commerce or intercourse by means of shipping.

In English law

Navigation act: the statute of 13 Car. II., c 18, forbidding foreign ships and seamen to trade with British colonies. It was repealed by the statute 6 Geo. IV., cc.

109, 110, 114.