FREE COURSE, Mar. law. Having the wind from a favorable quarter.
2. To prevent collision of vessels, it is the duty of the vessel having
a free course to give way to a vessel beating up. to windward and tacking. 3
Hagg. Adm. R. 215, 326. And at sea, it is the duty of such vessel, in
meeting another, to go to leeward. 3 Car. & P. 528. See 9 Car. & P. W. Rob.
225; 2 Dodson, 87.