In international law. The right of visit or visitation is the right of a cruiser or war-ship to stop a vessel sailing under another flag on the high seas, and send an officer to such vessel to ascertain whether her nationality is what it purports to be. It is exercisable only wben suspicious circumstances attend the vessel to be visited; as when she is suspected of a piratical char-acter
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
