steamboat debts
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 90 U.S. 492 - Moran v. Prather · 1874Most cited · 63 citing opinions
such debts as constitute a lien or privilege on the steamboat for necessary supplies, materials, repairs, and wages; that they do not include debts which cannot be enforced against the steamboat by any of the conservatory laws of the State.
How often courts cite the case defining “steamboat debts”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “steamboat debts” — 63 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.