steamboat debts
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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.