VOYAGE. In Maritime Law. The passage of a ship upon the seas from one port to another, or to several ports. The term in cludes the enterprise entered upon and not merely the route. Friend v. Ins. Co., 113 Mass. 326. The actual transit of a vessel from port to port. The Mary Adelaide Ran dall, 93 Fed. 222. Each trip constitutes a voyage; The Rose Culkin, 52 Fed. 332.
Where a steamship is engaged in making regular trips from Havre to New York and return, each trip in one direction constitutes a voyage within the meaning of the statute providing for limitation of liability of own ers to their Interest in the vessel and "her freight for the voyage"; In re La Bourgogne, 117 Fed. 261.
Where a-loss was occasioned whilst load ing the cargo, it was held be during the voyage; L. R. 15 P. D. 203.
Every voyage must have a terminus a quo and a terminus ad quern, When the insur ance is for a limited time, the two extremes of that time are the termini of the voyage insured. When a ship is insured both out ward and homeward, for one entire premi um, this, with reference to the insurance, is considered but one voyage, and the terminus a quo is also the terminus ad quent; Marsh. Ins. b. 1, c. 7, s. 1-5.
As to the commencement and ending of the voyage, see Rms.
The voyage, with reference to the legality of it, is sometimes confounded with the traf fic in which the ship is engaged, and is fre quently said to be illegal only because the trade is so ; but a voyage may be lawful, and yet the transport of certain goods on board the ship may be prohibited; or the voyage may be illegal, though the transport of the goods be lawful ; Marsh. Ins. b. 1, c. 6, s. 1.
See DEVIATION; SAILING.
Justice Miller, in Wabash, St. L. & P. R. Co. v. Illinois, 118 U. S. 557, 7 Sup. Ct. 4, 30 L. Ed. 244, used the word in relation to the transportation of goods by railroad through more than one state.
In the French Law, the voyage de conserve is the name given to designate an agreement made between two or more sea-captains that they will not separate in their voyage, will lend aid to each other, and will defend them selves against a common enemy or the ene my of one of them in case of attack. This agreement is said to be a partnership. 3 Pardessus, Dr. Com. n. 656; 4 id. 984; 20 Toullier, n. 17.