THE MERRITT, 84 U.S. 582 (1873)

THE MERRITT. OCTOBER TERM, 1873. 1. A vessel built in the British Province of Canada, but owned wholly by citizens of the United States, cannot under the Registry Act of 1792 (1 Stat. at Large, 287) be a vessel of the United States; nor can she be a foreign vessel truly and wholly belonging to […]

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84 U.S. 582

84 U.S. 582 84 U.S. 582 21 L.Ed. 682 17 Wall. 582 THE MERRITT. October Term, 1873 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin; the case being thus: By a statute of 1792,1 it is enacted that no ships but those which have been registered in the manner therein prescribed, shall […]

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