Port in Legal Terms

A place for the loading and unloading of cargo from ships and the collection of import and export duties or duties. A place, either on the coast or on a river, where ships stop for loading and unloading, from where they depart and where they end their journey. The Wharf Case, 3 Bland (Ed.) 361; Packholz v. Walden, 7 Mart. N. S. (La.) S8; Devato v. Barrels of Plumbago (D. C.) 20 Fed. 515; Petrel Guano Co.

v. Jarnette (C.C.) 45 Fed. 675; De Longuemere v. Insurance Co., 10 Johns. (N.Y.) 125. In French maritime law. load, (of a ship;) Size and capacity. Supported by Black`s Law Dictionary, Free 2nd ed., and The Law Dictionary.