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Tonnage

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Tonnage, the estimated number of tons burden that a ship will carry; as to measurement, see ss. 77 to 78 and Sch. II. of the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, and ss. 54, 55 of the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1906 (Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Shipping').

The capacity of a vessel for carrying freight or other loads, calculated in tons, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1496

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