Tramp Oil and Marine, Ltd. v. M/v \Mermaid I\, Her Engines, Etc.

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting a less restrictive approach on the grounds that it might require a “vessel seeking to avoid a lien ... to delve far deeper into every transaction than is commercially reasonable”
• vessels owners should not be required to delve into every past transaction in order to ensure that no liens arose
• “The primary concern of the [FMLA] is the protection of American suppliers of goods and services.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).