Demurrage

[ "'Demurrage' is the compensation due to a shipowner from a freighter for unduly decaying his vessel in port beyond the time specified in the charter-party or bill of lading.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1663 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

[ "'Demurrage' is the compensation due to a shipowner from a freighter for unduly decaying his vessel in port beyond the time specified in the charter-party or bill of lading.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

[ "'Demurrage' is the compensation due to a shipowner from a freighter for unduly decaying his vessel in port beyond the time specified in the charter-party or bill of lading.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 25: November/December 1663 Samuel Pepys 1668

[ "'Demurrage' is the compensation due to a shipowner from a freighter for unduly decaying his vessel in port beyond the time specified in the charter-party or bill of lading.

The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Nov/Dec 1663 Pepys, Samuel 1663

The Demurrage [sic], the creator, is in the shadow land, the world he created, his own personal matrix.

Clay Farris Naff: Sims, Suffering and God: Matrix Theology and the Problem of Evil 2010

The Demurrage [sic], the creator, is in the shadow land, the world he created, his own personal matrix.

Clay Farris Naff: Sims, Suffering and God: Matrix Theology and the Problem of Evil 2010

Reminder - Demurrage is a penalty fee charged by ports for failure to move cargo out of their warehouses within certain fixed time periods, e.g., seven, fifteen or thirty days.

1. Lighterage 1998

Demurrage charges for not clearing food out of port warehouses on a timely basis

1. Roads 1998

This [illegible] Demurrage would have been charged doubly, both to your Account and that of your

Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 23 January 1796 1796

In order to banish an Evil out of the World, that does not only produce great Uneasiness to private Persons, but has also a very bad Influence on the Publick, I shall endeavour to shew the Folly of Demurrage from two or three Reflections which I earnestly recommend to the Thoughts of my fair Readers.

Spectator, June 12, 1711 1711