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2012 California Codes
HNC - Harbors and Navigation Code
DIVISION 3 - VESSELS [399 - 786]
CHAPTER 2 - Civil Actions and Liens
ARTICLE 1 - Bottomry
Section 461
CA Harb & Nav Code § 461 (through 2013 Leg Sess) What's This?
A bottomry lien, if created out of a real or apparent necessity, in good faith, is preferred to every other lien or claim upon the same thing, excepting only a lien for seamen’s wages, a subsequent lien of material-men for supplies or repairs indispensable to the safety of the vessel, and a subsequent lien for salvage.
(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 368.)
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