The Bird of Paradise

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that parties “of course” may agree “to extend or modify” a Hen “aris[ing] from the usages of commerce”
• “Legal effect of such a lien is, that the ship-owner, as carrier by water, may retain the goods until the freight is paid, or he may enforce the same by a proceeding in rem in the District Court.”
• lien provision of the Pomerene Act

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).