Plunderage

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Plunderage \Plun"der*age\, n. (Mar. Law)
     The embezzlement of goods on shipboard. --Wharton.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  plunderage
       n : the act of plundering (especially the embezzlement of goods
           on shipboard)

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  PLUNDERAGE, mar. law. The embezzlement of goods on board of a ship, is known 
  by the name of plunderage. 
       2. The rule of the maritime law in such cases is, that the whole crew 
  shall be responsible for the property thus embezzled, because there must be 
  some negligence in finding out the depredator. Abbott on Ship. 457; 3 John. 
  Rep. 17; 1 Pet. Adm. Dee. 243; 1 New Rep. 347; 1 Pet. Adm. Dee. 200, 239.