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Definition of Home port
1. Noun. The port from which a ship originates of where it is registered.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Home Port
Literary usage of Home port
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"614, 640), in which he reviewed the authorities and insisted that the admiralty
had no jurisdiction in cases of materials furnished in a home port, ..."
2. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1839)
"RIGHT OF SECURING DUTIES AT THE home port. Case and Opinion of the District
Attorney of South Florida, upon the right of a party to secure the duties upon ..."
3. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1903)
"... their home port. They did not so •bide within the city as to become incorporated
with and form a part of its personal In Wells r. ..."
4. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1890)
"No lien exists for repairs made or supplies furnished in the home port.1 Where
advances and supplies are made to a vessel in her home port, the law presumes ..."
5. A Treatise on the Power of Taxation, State and Federal, in the United States by Frederick Newton Judson (1917)
"Thus steamers and vessels employed on the great lakes, having the name of their
home port and the city of their owner's domicil painted thereon, ..."
6. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"home port. it is difficult to formulate a precise rule by which the home port of
a vessel belonging to persons residing in different states may be ..."
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