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lien for freight

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 66 U.S. 108 - 4885 Bags of Linseed · 1861Most cited · 65 citing opinions

The lien of the carrier by water for his freight, under the ordinary bill of lading, although it is maritime, yet it stands upon the same ground with the carrier by land, and arises from his right to retain the possession until the freight is paid, and is lost by an unconditional delivery to the consignee

How often courts cite the case defining “lien for freight”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “lien for freight” — 65 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.