Catchings
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
Things caught, and in the possession, custody, power, and dominion of the party, with a present capacity to use them for his own purposes. The term includes blubber, or pieces of whale flesh cut from the whale, and stowed on or under the deck of aship. A policy of insurance upon outfits, and ecatchings substituted for the outfits, ina whaling voyage, protects the blubber.
1 Story, 603; 4 Law Rep. 297.