PORT

A place for the lading and unlading of the cargoes of ve eis, and the collection of duties or customs upon imports and exports. A place, either on the sea• _ coast or on a river, where ships stop for the Ppurpose of loading and unloading, from whence they depart, and where they finish their voyages. The Wharf Case, 3 Bland (lid.) 361; Pack wood v. Walden, 7 Mart. N. S. (La.) 88; Devato v. Barrels of Plumbago (D. C.) 20 Fed. 515; Petrel Guano Co. v. Jarnette (C. C.) 45 Fed. 675; De Longue- - mere v. Insurance Co., 10 Johns. (N. Y.) 125. In French maritime law. Burden, (of a ve el;) size and capacity. -Foreign port. A foreign "port is properly one exclusively within the jurisdiction of a foreign nation, hence one without the United States. King v. Parks, 19 Johns. (N, Y.) 375; Bigley v. New York & P. R. S. S. Co. (D. C.) 105 Fed. 74. But the term is also applied to a port in any state other than the state where the ve el belongs or her owner resides. '.rhe Canada (D. C.) 7 Fed. 124; The Lulu, 10 Wall, 200, 19 L. Ed. 906; Negus v. Simpson, 99 Ma . 393.-Home port. The port at which a ve el is registered or enrolled or where the owner resides.-Port charges, dues, or tolls. Pecuniary exact1ons upon ve els availing themselves of the commercial conveniences and priv• ileges of a port.-Port-greve. 'l'he chief magistrate of a sea-port town is s0me times so call• ed.-Port of delivery, In maritime law, The port which is to be the _terminus of any particular voyage, and where the ve el is to unlade or deliver her cargo, as distinguished from any por_t at which she may touch, during the voyage, for other purposes. The Two Catharines, 24 Fed. Cas. 429.-Port of destination, In maritime law and marine insurance, the term includes both ports which constitute the termini of the voyage, the home-port and the foreign port to which the· ve el is consigned, as well as any usual stopping places for the receipt or discharge of cargo. Gookin v. New England Mut. Marine Ins. Co., 12 Gray (Ma .) 501, 74 Am. Dec. 609.-Port of discharge, in a policy of marine insur:ance, means the place where the substantial part of the cargo is discharged, although there is an intent to complete the discharge at another basin. Bramhall v. Sun Mut. Ins. Co., 104 Ma . 510, 6 Am. Rep. 261.-:Port of entry. One of the ports designated by law, at which a custom-house or revenue office is established for the execution of the laws imposing duties on ve els and importations of goods. Cro v. Harrison, 16 How. 164, 14 L Ed. 889.-Port-reeve, or port warden. An officer maintained in some ports to oversee the administration of the local regulations; a sort of ·harbor-master.-Port-risk, In marine insurance. ·A risk upon a ve el while lying in port, and before she has taken her departure upon another voyage. Nelson v. Sun Mut. Ins. Co., 71 N. Y. 459. [s. 920]