Perishable
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Ordinarily means subject to speedy and natural decay. But where the time contemplated is necessarily long, the term may embrace property liable merely to material depreciation in value fjom other causes than such decay.
Webster 0. Peck, 31 Conn. 495.
Perishable property docs not include mature, merchantable corn. Illinois, &c.
E. E. Co. V. Me Clellan, 54 lU. 58.
A statutory authority to sell perishable goods which have been seized on an attachment, should be limited to such goods as are liable to perish before the time arrives at which they might be sold in the regular course of the proceedings.
Henisler v. Friedman, 5 Pa. L. J. 147.
Under a statute allowing the speedy sale of personal property in its nature perishable, upon which an execution has been levied, the property intended is that only which will materially depreciate or be wholly lost by natural decay before the expiration of the usual time prescribed by law for sales on execution.
Webster v. Peck, 31 Com. 495.