Shorage
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Shorage is a noun meaning The right to use a shore, for example to land goods.
Meaning
The right to use a shore, for example to land goods.
More Meanings
- A fee or duty paid for such a right.
Example Sentences
Defendant pleaded recoupment for damage to freight, and for shorage.
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 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
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
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include royalty, keelage, aquaehaustus, concession, holdership, rightsholder.
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