Posted by Praxis
(here)
I have recently been reading the U.S.C to learn more about law and I was wondering if someone here can save me some work.
Title 1 deals with certain definitions.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/1/chapter-1
Specifically
The word “vessel” includes every description of watercraft or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on water.
(July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 633.)
and
The word “vehicle” includes every description of carriage or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on land.
(July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 633.)
So I have a couple questions. The first and more mundane, where are the vessel that travel UNDER water defined or does vessel cover that too?
The more exotic question; Where are crafts that travel in the air and or space defined.
I looked in Title 10 which deals with military but could not find it where I assumed it would be, Air Force Definitions
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/t...-I/chapter-801
But as you can see, it is empty. So I thought it would be defined in the army section as the Air force is actually a relatively new branch.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/3001
Again as you can see, it is not there.
I have a concordancer but unfortunately the U.S.C. is so large it crashes the program when I try to use it so I have to go title by title, and sometimes smaller chunks than that. SO I was wondering if anybody already knows the answer to this.
The reason I want to know this is is, if there is no definition for space craft in the legal framework, the Secret Space Program would be a in a legal grey area which may be part of how they hide it.
I am a complete newb when it comes to Law so forgive my ignorance.
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