Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Pilot
See COMPULSORY PILOT; VOLUNTARY PILOT.
Pilotage
1 The navigating of vessels: the business of navigating vessels. 2. Compensation that a pilot receives for navigating a vessel, esp. into and out of harbor or through a channel or passage.
compulsory pilot
Maritime law. A ship pilot entitled by law to guide a ship for a particular purpose, such as piloting the ship into harbor. 0 The compulsory nature of the appointment relieves the vessel's owner of personal liability if the pilot causes a collision. Cf. VOLUNTARY PI. LOT."The compulsory pilot presents a special problem. Statutes that impose a fine or imprisonment for the failure to take a pilot obviously create compulsory pilotage. Some statutes, however, allow the ship to refuse the pilot provided she pays his fee or half of it (half-pilotage'). The Supreme Court has indicated that it does not regard the tendering of this alternative as amounting to compulsion. It makes a difference, because it is pretty well settled that if the pilotage is compulsory' the respondeat superior nexus is broken, and the shipowner cannot be held personally liable for the fault of the pilot resulting in collision. The ship's liability in rem, however, is unaffected by the fact that the pilotage is compulsory. Thi
compulsory pilotage
A requirement, imposed by law in some jurisdictions, that vessels approaching or leaving a harbor must take on a licensed pilot to guide the vessel into or out of the harbor.
half-pilotage
Compensation equaling half the value of services that a pilot has offered to perform. ( Shipowners can avoid compulsory pilotage in some jurisdictions by payment of half-pilotage.
half-pilotage.
See PILOTAGE.
voluntary pilot
Maritime law. A ship pilot who controls a ship with the permission of the vessel's owner. ( The vessel's owner is personally liable for damage resulting from a collision caused by a voluntary pilot. Cf. COMPULSORY PILOT. "If a vessel is in the hands of a harbor pilot at the time of the collision, the question arises whether the fault of the pilot is imputed to the vessel owner or operator. American law draws an unwarranted distinction between the voluntary pilot,' who is taken on voluntarily, and the compulsory pilot,' who is mandated by a statute or local regulation. The voluntary pilot is considered to be the same as any crew member, and his fault is fully attributable to the vessel owner. A compulsory pilot's fault, however, cannot be imputed to th