half pilotage
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Case Law, Black's (1910)
Definitions from Case Law
From 73 U.S. 31 - Steamship Company v. Portwardens · 1867Most cited · 71 citing opinions
half pilotage is compensation for services which the pilot has put himself in readiness to perform by labor, risk, and cost, and which he has actually offered to perform.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Compensation for services which a ilot has put himself in readiness to perform, y labor, risk, and cost, and has offered to perform, at half the rate he would have received if the services had actually been performed. Gloucester Ferry Co., v. Pennsvlvania, 114 U. S. 196, 5 Sup. Ct. 826, 29 L. Ed. 158,
Defined under Half in Black's Law Dictionary.