maritime loan

English

Noun

maritime loan (plural maritime loans)

1. (nautical, especially historical) A loan secured by bottomry or respondentia bonds.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “maritime loan”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Further reading

• The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion, "Insurance", 2011