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A particular officer serving on board a ship during the course of a voyage, and having the charge of the helm and the ship's route; or a person taken on board at any particular place for the purpose of conducting a ship through a river, read, or channel, or from or into a port. Branch pilot. One possessing a license, commission, or certificate of competency issued by the proper … [Read more...] about PILOT

A person who lives by piracy; one guilty of the crime of piracy. A sea robber, who, to enrich himself, by subtlety or open force, setteth upon merchants and others trading by sea, despoiling them of their loading, and sometimes bereaving them of life and sinking their ships. Ridley, Civil & Ecc. Law, pt. 2, c. 1, … [Read more...] about PIRATE

Corporate law requires that a corporation be treated as it's own entity, separate from the shareholders. Shareholders are shielded from personal liability in the absence of a violation corporate law, such as an ultra vires act, e.g. commingling the assets of the corporation with the personal assets of shareholders. Should such an ultra vires act occur, the law allows for a … [Read more...] about PIERCING THE CORPORATE VEIL

contracts. The compensation given to a pilot for conducting a vessel in or out of port. Poth. Des Avaries, n. 147. 2. 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 person lawfully authorized to make it; 1 Mason, R. 508; and the admiralty court has jurisdiction, when services have been performed at sea. … [Read more...] about PILOTAGE

"Where the act uses the word 'piratical,' It does so in a general sense; importing that the aggression is unauthorized by the law of nations, hostile in its character, wanton and criminal in its commission, and utterly without any sanction from any public authority or sovereign power. In short it means that the act belongs to the class of offenses which pirates are in the habit … [Read more...] about PIRATICAL