(A) commerce, crim. law. The space of forty days, or a less quantity of time, during which the crew of a ship or vessel coming from a port or place infected or supposed to be infected with disease, are required to remain on board after their arrival, before they can be permitted to land. 2. The object of the quarantine is to ascertain whether the crew are infected or not. 3. To break the quarantine without legal authority is a misdemeanor. 1 Russ. on Cr. 133. 4. In cases of insurance of ships, the insurer is responsible when the insurance extends to her being moored in port 24 hours in safety, although she may have arrived, if before the 24 hours are expired she is ordered to perform quarantine, if any accident contemplated by the policy occur 1 Marsh. on Ins. 264. (B) inheritances, rights. The space of forty days during which a widow has a right to remain in her late husband’s principal mansion, immediately after his death. The right of the widow is also called her quarantine. 2. In some, perhaps all the states of the United States, provision has been expressly made by statute securing to the widow this right for a greater or lesser space of time.
Law Dictionary – Alternative Legal Definition
A period of time (theoretically forty days) during which a vessel, coming from a place where a contagious or infectious disease is prevalent, is detained by authority in the harbor of her port of destination, or at a station near it, without being permitted to land or to discharge her crew or passengers. Quarantine is said to have been first established at Venice in 1484. , Baker, Quar. 3. In real proporty. The space of forty days during which a widow has a right to . remain in her late husband’s principal mansion immediately after his death. The right of the widow is also called her “quarantine.”