Materialmen
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Persons who furnish materials to be used in the erection of buildings, ships, etc. By the general American law, materialmen have a lien on a foreign ship (9 Wheat. [U. S.] 409), but not on a domestic ship (20 How. [U. S.] 393). By statute, materialmen have a lien on a building. See "Mechanic's Lien." MATERNA MATERNIS (Lat. from the mother to the mother's). In French law. A term denoting the descent of property