PILOTAGE. The compensation given to a pilot for conducting a vessel in or out of port. Pothier, Des ilvaries, n. 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 per son lawfully authorized to make it, 1 Mae. C. C. 508 ; and the admiralty court has jurisdiction when services have been per formed at sea. Id. ; 10 Wheat. 428 ; 6 Pet. 682 ; 10 id. 108. And see 1 Pet. Adm. Dec. 227.
Money allowed by a man to his wife to spend for her own personal comforts.
It has been conjectured that the term pin-inoney has been applied to signify the provision for a married woman, because anciently there was a tax laid for providing the English queen with pins Barrington, Stat. 181.
When pin-money is given to but not spent by the wife, on the husband's death it belongs to his estate. 4 Viper, Abr. 133, Baron &
Feme (E a. 8) ; 2 Eq. Cas. Abr. 156 ; 2 P. Will. 341 ; 3 id. 353 ; 1 Yes. Ch. 267 ; 2 id. 190 ; 1 Madd. Ch. 489, 490.
In England it was once adjudged that a promise to a wife, by the purchaser, that if she would not hinder the bargain for the sale of the husband's lands he would give her ten pounds, was valid, and might be enforced by an action of assumpsit instituted by husband and wife. Rolle, Abr. 21, 22.
In the French law, the term epingles, pins, is used to designate the present which is some times given by the purchaser of an immovable to the wife or daughters of the seller to induce them to consent to the sale. This present is not considered as a part of the consideration, but a purely voluntary gift. Dict. de Juz. Epingles.