Longevity Pay
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
Extra compensation for longevity in actual service in the army or navy.
Thornley v. U. S., 18 Ct. Cl. 111.
Its introduction was intended (1) to induce men to enter the service and remain in it for life; (2) to remove the depressing influence of long years of service in one grade without increase of pay; (3) to compensate for increased professional knowledge and efficiency of officers by increasing their pay in advance of promotion, id. The act relating to longevity pay deals with credit for length of service and the additional pay which arises therefrom, and not with the matter of regular salary, and it has no reference to benefits derived from promotion to different grades, but is conflned to the lowest grade having graduated pay; Barton v. U. S., 129 U. S. 249, 9 Sup. CL 285, 32 H Ed. 663; U. S. v. Alger, 151 U. S. 362, 14 Sup. Ct 346, 38 L. Ed. 192; U. S. V. Stahl, 151 U. S. 366, 14 Sup. Ct. 347, 38 L. Ed. 194. Service as midshipman at a naval academy is service as an officer in the navy as respects longevity pay; U. S. v. Baker, 125 U. S. 646, 8 Sup. CL 1022, 31 L. Ed. 824;