Supercargo
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In maritime law
A person specially employed by the owner of a cargo to take charge of and sell to the best advantage merchandise which has been shipped, and to purchase returning cargoes and to receive freight, as he may be authorized. Supercargoes have complete control over the cargo and everything which imii;iedjately concerns it, unless their authority is either expressly or impliedly restrained.
12 East, 381.
Under certain circumstances, they are responsible for the cargo (4 Mass. 115. See 1 Gill & J. [Md.] 1), but the supercargo has no power to interfere with the government of the ship (3 Pardessus, note 646; 1 Boul. P. Dr. Com. 421).
8UPERDEMANDA (Law Lat.) In old English practice.
An over demand; a demandof more than was just or due. Cadit in misericordiam pro super demanda, be- SUPERFICIARIU8 (Lat) In Civil law. He who has built upon the soil of another, which he has hired for a number of years or forever, yielding a yearly rent. This is not very different from the owner of a lot on ground rent in Pennsylvania.
Dig. 43. 18. 1.
SUPERFICIES (Lat.) In civil law. Whatever has been erected on the soil.