The Belcher Company of Alabama, Inc. v. M/v Maratha Mariner, Her Engines, Tackle, Etc.

How courts have described this case

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• “... Dutch law does not recognize the concept of maritime lien and, therefore, provides no mechanism by which such a lien can be enforced.”
• no compelling reason to decline jurisdiction where court averts possibility of double liability
• “This lien attaches when necessaries are ordered by and supplied to a charterer, unless the supplier has notice that the person who orders the necessaries lacked authority to do so.” (footnote omitted)
• “Attachment does in many respects resemble arrest. In each proceeding the vessel is seized and it may later be sold to satisfy a judgment. In each, the vessel itself may be released and other security substituted.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).