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Nautical

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Black's (1910), Anderson (1889)

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Pertaining to ships or to the art of navigation or the business of carriage by sea.

Nautical assessors. Experienced shipmasters, or other persons having special knowledge of navigatiou and nautical affairs, who are called to the assistance of a court of admiralty, in difficult cases involving questions of negligence, and who sit with the judge during the argument, and give their advice upon questions of seamanship or the weight of testimony. The Empire (D. C.) 19 Fed. 559; The Clement, 2 Curt. 369, Fed. Cas. No. 2,879.

Nautical mile. See Mile.

A Dictionary of Law

William C. Anderson · 1889

See Assessor, 1.