touch and sta

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touch and sta - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  TOUCH AND STAY. These words are frequently introduced in policies of 
  insurance, giving the party insured the right to stop and stay at certain 
  designated points in the course of the voyage. A vessel which has the power 
  to touch and stay at a place in the course of the voyage, must confine 
  herself strictly to the terms of the liberty so given; for any attempt to 
  trade at such a port during such a stay, as by shipping or landing goods, 
  will amount to a species of deviation which will discharge the underwriters, 
  unless the ship have also liberty to trade, as well as to touch and stay at 
  such a place. 1 Marsh. Ins. 275; 1 Esp. R. 610; 5 Esp. R. 96.