2025 California Code
Harbors and Navigation Code - HNC
DIVISION 3 - VESSELS
CHAPTER 2 - Civil Actions and Liens
ARTICLE 1 - Bottomry
Section 461.

Universal Citation:
CA Harb & Nav Code § 461 (2025)
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461. 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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