Wharfingers  in  London  are  entitled^  to  wharfage  for
goods  unladed  into  lighters  out  of  barges  fastened  to  their
wharfs  ;  ^  and  it  appears  that  a  custom  exists  in  the  same
city  of  mooring  barges  for  a  tide  at  low  water  to  the  piles
in  front  of  the  wharfs  erected  along  the  river ;  but  the
custom  does  not  extend  to  allow  them  to  be  moored  to  the
wharf  itself,  except  through  distress.^

The  amount  to  which  a  party  claims  to  be  entitled  for  Amount


1  Under  22   Car.  II.  c.   11,  and  1  W.  Bl.  413,  423.
Order   of    Council   of   1st   March,  »   Wi/att  v.  Thomson,  1  Esp.  252 ;

1674.  see  Gunning,  p.  126.
^  Stephens  v.  Coster,  3  Burr.  1409 ;


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