Pilotage
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
The compensation given to a pilot for conducting a vessel in or out of port. Pothier, Dos Avaries, n.
147.
Pilotage is a lien on the ship, when the contract has been made by the master or qua si-master of the ship or some other person lawfully authorized to make it; The Anne, 1 Mas. 508, Fed. Cas. No. 412; see The Pirate, 32 Fed. 486; and the admiralty court has jurisdiction when services have been performed at sea; The Thomas Jefferson, 10 Wheat. (U. S.) 428, 6 L. Ed. 358; Rened. Adm. § 289; The Lord Clive, 10 Fed. 135. The statutes of the several states regulating the subject of pilotage are, in view of the numerous acts of congress recognizing and adopting them, to be regarded as constitutionally made, until congress supersedes them; Cooley v. Board of Wardens, 12 How. (U. S.) 312, 13 L. Ed. 996; Re Mc Neil, 13 Wall. (U. S.) 236, 20 L. Ed. 624.