Whether that be so or not, we conclude that, upon the facts agreed, the plaintiff has derived a benefit, as far as appears, from the use of the wharf, and, upon a well-settled principle, should pay its reasonable value, which is admitted in the case to be the amount claimed, though the precise nature of the use is not disclosed. This Court has recognized the right of a wharfinger to charge the owner of goods for the use of his wharf. Wooster v. Blossom, 50 N.C. 244. It does not appear distinctly whether the charge against the defendant was for dockage or berthage, strictly speaking, or for wharfage, using the former terms in the sense of a charge against a vessel for the privilege of mooring to a wharf or pier, which is one of the usual and customary port charges against the vessel, and the latter as denoting a (35) charge against merchandise for the use of a wharf, which is said to be one of its meanings.