Towage
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
1.
The labor or service of drawing a vessel from one place to another, through the water.
2.
The compensation or price paid for drawing a vessel. When it becomes especially desirable to distinguish these two, the drawing the vessel is termed towage service. Towage is the drawing a ship or barge along the water by another ship or boat, fastened to her, or by men or horses, &c., on land. It is also money which is given by bargemen to the owner of ground next a river, where they tow a barge or other vessel..Tacob. Towage service is aid rendered in the propulsion of a vessel, &c., irrespective of any circumstances of peril.
The H. B. Foster, Abh. Adm. 222, 228.
In the absence of a contract, the towing of a vessel, in peril or disabled, is salvage; but, as a convenient word to distinguish an ordinary ease of contract from one of salvage, " towage " is often used. Baker «.
Hemenway, 2 Low. 501.