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Pierage

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Toll for using a marine pier. Webster; Smart. PIGNORATIO (Lat. from pignorare, to pledge).

In civil law

The obligation of a pledge.

L. 9 D. "De Pignor."

Sealing up (obsignatio). A shutting up of an animal caught in one's field, and keeping it till the expenses and damage have been paid by its master.

New Dec. 1. 34. 13.