BRANCH

An offshoot, lateral exten- ·sion, or subdivision. A branch of a famlly stock is a group of.persons, related among themselves by descent from a common ancestor, and related to the main stock ·by the fact that that common ancestor descends from the original founder or progenitor. -Branch of the sea. This term. a.s used at common law, included rivers in which the tide:.f!bbed and flowed. Arnold v. Mundy, 6 N. J. Law, 86. 10 Am. Dec. 356.-Branch pilot. ·One po e ing a license, commi ion, or cer• ·tificate of competency i ued "by the proper au•· thoritl___ and usually after an examination. U. S. v. Forbes, 25 Fed. Oas. 1141; Petters on v. State (Tex. Cr. App.) 58 S. W. 100; Dean v. Healy, 66 Ga. 503; State v. Follett, 33 La. Ann. 228.-Branch railroad. A. lateral ex- ·tension of a main line; a road connected with' -or i uing from a main line, but not a mere incident of it and not a mere spur or side-track, not one constructed simply to facilitate the busine of the chief railway, but designed to have •a busine of its own 'in the tranSJ)Ortation of persons and property to and from places not reached by the principal line. Akers v. Canal Co•• 43 N. J. Law, 110; Biles v. Railroad Co., 5 Wash. 509,1.}2 Pac. 211; Grennan v. McGregor, 78 Cal. "'18, 20 Pac. 559; New hall v. Railroad Co., 14 Ill. 274; Blanton v. Railroad Co., 86 Va. 618, 10 S. E. 925. [s. 155]