| a. | 1. | Within the land; more or less remote from the ocean or from open water; interior; |
| 2. | Limited to the land, or to inland routes; within the seashore boundary; not passing on, or over, the sea; | |
| 3. | Confined to a country or state; domestic; not foreign; | |
| n. | 1. | The interior part of a country. |
| adv. | 1. | Into, or towards, the interior, away from the coast. |
| Adj. | 1. | inland - situated away from an area's coast or border Antonyms: coastal - located on or near or bordering on a coast; "coastal marshes"; "coastal waters"; "the Atlantic coastal plain" |
| Adv. | 1. | inland - towards or into the interior of a region; "the town is five miles inland" |
INLAND. Within the same country.
2. It seems not to be agreed whether the term inland applies to all the
United States or only to one state. It has been holden in Now York that a
bill of exchange by one person in one state, on another person in another,
is an inland bill of exchange; 5 John. Rep. 375; but a contrary opinion
seems to have been held in the circuit court of the United States for
Pennsylvania. Whart. Dig. tit. Bills of Exchange, E, pl. 78. Vide 2 Phil.
Ev. 36, and Bills of Exchange.
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