sailing instructions

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sailing instructions - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  SAILING INSTRUCTIONS, mar. law. Written or printed directions, delivered by 
  the commanding officer of a convoy to the several masters of the ships under 
  his care, by which they are enabled to understand and answer his signals, to 
  know the place of rendezvous appointed for the fleet, in case of dispersion 
  by storm, by an enemy, or by any other accident. 
       2. Without sailing instructions no vessel can have the full protection 
  and benefit of convoy. Marsh. Ins. 368.