Case ID: f-cas_17/html/0728-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "[MAGRATH, District Judge,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Case Mb. 9,790.
    MORDECAI et al. v. The MARY EDDY.
    District Court, D. South Carolina.
    Maritime Lien — Definition — Distinguished from Equitable Lien.
   [MAGRATH, District Judge,

cites from The. Young Mechanic, Case No. 18,180, the remark by Judge Curtis wherein he distinguished a maritime from an equitable lien, and adopted the definition by Pothier of an hypothecation, as an accurate description of a maritime lien under our law, — “the right which a creditor has in a thing of another, which right consists in the power to cause that thing to be sold in order to have the debt paid out of the price,”— and adds that a maritime lien, in general, gives no right to the creditor to take possession; that is executed by the suit in rem.]

[Nowhere reported: opinion not,now accessible. The above statement of the point determined was taken from Cohen’s Adm. Law, 202.]