LOADMANAGE

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The Law Mind • 746 words
Definition
Loadmanage (also loadmanage) is an archaic maritime term referring to the fee or compensation paid to a loadsman — a navigator or pilot who guided a vessel through hazardous waters by sailing or rowing ahead of the ship in a smaller bark or vessel, using towing instruments and local knowledge to direct the ship's course and help her avoid dangers. The term is essentially the wage side of the loadsman's service: what the shipowner or master owed the pilot for that guidance.
Common Confusion
Loadmanage is frequently conflated with pilotage, and the two concepts are closely related but technically distinct. Pilotage is the broader service of navigating a vessel through difficult waters; loadmanage refers specifically to the compensation for a particular historical form of that service — one performed by a loadsman operating from a separate vessel ahead of the ship. The confusion is compounded by Bouvier's redirection to LODEMANAGE, reflecting variant spellings of the same underlying term, and by Rapalje & Lawrence, which conflates the entry with pilotage pay more generally.
Why It Matters in Research
Researchers encountering loadmanage in historical maritime records, shipping contracts, charter parties, or average adjustment documents should treat it as a species of pilotage or maritime service charge. Several navigational points matter: Variant spellings are a real trap. Bouvier redirects to LODEMANAGE, and historical sources use both spellings interchangeably. A corpus search limited to one spelling will miss relevant documents. Search loadmanage, lodemanage, and loadsman together. The term appears most naturally in the context of general average and avarie calculations. Pothier's Des Avaries (Traité des contrats de louage, section on averages), cited in both Black's editions, situates loadmanage squarely within the law of maritime averages — costs incurred to preserve the vessel and cargo that may be shared among interested parties. Researchers working on average adjustment disputes in historical shipping records should flag any loadmanage charge as a potential general average item. The Rapalje & Lawrence entry is unreliable for this term. The text is visibly corrupted — the entry bleeds into surrounding material on loan and loaf sugar — suggesting a typesetting or scanning defect in the source. Do not rely on Rapalje & Lawrence for definitional authority here; use Black's or Bouvier's instead. Loadmanage is essentially extinct in modern practice. Contemporary maritime law addresses pilotage fees through statute and port regulation, not through this term. Encountering it in a modern document would be anomalous and warrants scrutiny.
Historical Dictionary Support
Both editions of Black's Law Dictionary give identical definitions, anchored to Pothier's Des Avaries, no. 137 — a consistent and credible citation to a recognized French maritime law authority whose treatise on averages was influential in Anglo-American admiralty jurisprudence. This agreement across editions reflects simple reproduction rather than independent corroboration, so the Pothier citation is the real evidentiary foundation. Bouvier adds no independent definition, redirecting entirely to LODEMANAGE — confirming that the two spellings were understood as the same term, but offering no additional analytical content. Rapalje & Lawrence nominally covers the term but the entry is textually compromised and merges loadmanage with pilotage compensation in a way that obscures rather than clarifies. Its practical value for this entry is minimal. What the historical sources collectively miss: none of them address whether loadmanage was recoverable as a general average charge in English or American admiralty courts, what evidentiary standard applied to proving the fee, or how the role of the loadsman related to licensed pilots under emerging port regulation statutes. Researchers needing those answers must look beyond the dictionary shelf to admiralty treatises and reported cases.
Jurisdictional Note
Loadmanage is a term of English maritime law origin. American admiralty courts operating under federal jurisdiction would have encountered it in the context of historical shipping disputes, but modern pilotage is governed by federal statute and state pilotage commissions, making the term practically irrelevant to contemporary U.S. litigation.
Related Terms
Lodemanage — variant spelling; Bouvier's preferred form Loadsman — the person receiving the loadmanage; pilot operating from a forward vessel Pilotage — the broader modern equivalent; compensation for navigational guidance General Average — the average adjustment doctrine under which loadmanage charges may be apportioned Avarie — French maritime law concept; the Pothier source Charter Party — the shipping contract context in which such charges most often appear Bailment — adjacent concept appearing in the corrupted Rapalje & Lawrence entry; unrelated to loadmanage itself
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Black's Law Dictionary • 1891
The pay to loadsmen; that is, persons who sail or row before ships, in barks or small vessels, with instruments for towing the ship and directing her course, in order that she may escape the dangers in her way. Poth. Des Avaries, no. 137.
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Black's Law Dictionary (2nd Ed.) • 1910
The pay to loadsmen; that is, persons who sail or row before ships, in barks or small vessels, with instruments for towing the ship and directing her course, in order that she may escape the dangers in -her way. Poth. Des Avaries, no. 137.
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Rapalje & Lawrence • 1883
The pay to a pilot sumed. The borrower must take proper for conducting -Cowell. a ship from one place to another. care of the thing borrowed, use it according to the lender's intention, restore it at LOAF SUGAR, (in revenue act). 1 Sumn. (U. the proper time, and in a proper condiS.) 159, 161. tion. LOAN.-A bailment without reward; 24. The lender must suffer the boranything lent or given to another on condition of return or repayment. A sum of money confided to another. If it be effected by the government, it is a public loan. LOAN, (defined). 29 N. Y. 146, 167. (what constitutes). 2 Harr. (N. J.) 207; 6 East 186; 2 Nev. & Μ. 608. LOAN OR USE OF MONEY, (in a statute). 13 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 221; 2 Watts (Pa.) 264. LOAN CAPITAL.-In England, public and joint stock companies may create a loan capital, i. e. may borrow money on mortgage or bond or debenture stock; e. g. railway companies under the Railway Companies Act, 1867, (30 and 31 Vict. c. 127, 21). Such loan capital takes precedence usually of all other the general debts (but not liens) of the company.- Brown. LOAN, GRATUITOUS.- 1. A class of bailment which is called commodatum in the Roman law, and is denominated by Sir William Jones, a loan for use (prêt à usage), to distinguish it from mutuum, a loan for consumption. It is the gratuitous lending of an article to the borrower for his own use. 2. What constitutes. -- Several things are essential to constitute this contract. (1) There must be a loan of either goods or chattels, in contradistinction to a sale or a deposit of a thing with another for the sole benefit or purposes of the rower to use and enjoy the thing lent during the time of the loan, according to the original intention, without any molestation or impediment, under the peril of damages. He must re-imburse the borrower the extraordinary expenses to which he has been put for the preservation of the thing lent. He is bound to give notice to the borrower of the defects of the thing lent; and if he do not, but conceal them, and an injury occurs to the borrower thereby, the lender is responsible. Where the thing has been lost by the borrower, and, after he has paid the value thereof, is restored to the lender, the latter must return either the price paid or the thing; for, by such payment of the loss, the property is effectively transferred to the borrower. 5. Mr. Justice Story thus concludes his observations on gratuitous loans-a subject of daily occurrence in the actual business of human life: "It has, however," says he, "furnished very little occasion for the interposition of judicial tribunals, for reasons equally honorable to the parties and to the liberal spirit of polished society. The generous confidence thus bestowed is rarely abused; and if a loss or injury unintentionally occurs, an indemnity is either promptly offered by the borrower, or compensation is owner. (2) It must be lent gratuitously. promptly waived by the lender." Story (3) It must be lent for the use of the borrower, which must be the principal object, and not merely accessorial. (4) The property must be lent to be specifically returned to the lender at the determination of the bailment; and in this respect it differs from a mutuum, or loan for consumption, where the thing borBailm. c. iv. LODGED IN MY HANDS, (in a receipt). 3 Pa. 224.

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