Pier
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
A structure erected for ferry purposes, on a river-bank, by permission of the common council of the city of New York, consisting of piles covered with flooring, is not a pier, within the meaning of the act of 1867, ch. 763, regulating the distance between piers in the port of New York. Stevens V. Rhinelander, 5 Roht. 285.