Pilotage
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The compensation given to a pilot for conducting a vessel in or out of port.
Poth. des Avaries, note 147.
Pilotage is a lien on the ship, when the contract has been made by the master or quasi master of the ship, or some other person lawfully authorized to make it (1 Mason [U. S.] 598; 32 Fed. 486), and the admiralty court has jurisdiction when services have been performed at sea (Id.; 10 Wheat. tU. S.] 428; 6 Pet. [U. S.] 682; 10 Pet. [U. S.] 108).
And see 1 Pet. Adm. Dec. (U. S.) 227.