Meaning of shorage | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The right to use a shore, for example to land goods.
   uncountable
2. A fee or duty paid for such a right.
   uncountable

Examples

“It is further insisted that there was evidence of an implied contract, inasmuch as it was proved that the defendants had, before that time, paid a bill presented by the plaintiff for shorage for other rafts, before then anchored on the same flats.”

“that March⟳ 7, 1887, the Browns and Anderson, by warranty deed, conveyed to the Pelican Boom Company, its successors and assigns, "all their shorage, riparian, marginal, and flowage rights and easements […]”

“DROICT DE RIVAGE: Shorage, or Boatage; the Custome, or Toll for wine, or other wares, put⟳ vpon, or brought from, the water, by boats”

“The emperors laid a duty upon urine, dust, ordure, dead bodies, smoke⟳, air, &c. There were rights of the turf, the highway, shorage, duties upon carriages, beasts of burden, &c”

“Defendant pleaded recoupment for damage⟳ to freight, and for shorage.”

“The cost⟳ of getting logs from the stump to the various sawmills, including cutting, hauling, driving, boomage, shorage, tolls, and other expenses, is, on an average, from $8 to $8.50 per 1000 feet. The average cost⟳ of stumpage is $2”

“the wharfage or shorage rates are 10 cents per cord of wood, 10 cents per thousand feet of lumber, and 1 cent per tie, and these rates do not include⟳ handling”

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