US Lawyer Database

140 – Lien for Labor Performed in Quarrying, Mining, Dressing and Cutting Stone.

§ 140. Lien for labor performed in quarrying, mining, dressing and cutting stone. A person employed in a quarry, mine, yard or dock at excavating, quarrying, mining, dressing or cutting sandstone, granite, cement stone, limestone, bluestone or marble, may have a lien on such sandstone, cement stone, granite, limestone, bluestone or marble, for the amount […]

141 – Duration and Effect of Lien.

§ 141. Duration and effect of lien. Such lien shall terminate unless an action is brought to enforce the same within three months after the date of filing such notice, as provided in article nine for the enforcement of a lien upon a chattel. If the labor upon such sandstone, cement stone, granite, bluestone, limestone […]

142 – Discharge of Lien.

§ 142. Discharge of lien. Such lien may be discharged by a payment of the amount due thereon, by a failure to bring an action to enforce the same within the time prescribed in the preceding section, by the written consent of the lienor, duly acknowledged and filed with the proper officer to the effect […]

100 – Distribution of Surplus.

§ 100. Distribution of surplus. If upon payment of all claims established as liens against the vessel from the proceeds of its sale, a surplus remains, it may be distributed by the court to the persons entitled thereto, after a hearing and the publication of a notice by the applicants for the same time and […]

101 – Application for a Discharge of Warrant.

§ 101. Application for a discharge of warrant. The owner, consignee, agent or master of any vessel so seized, or any person interested therein, may at any time before the sale of the vessel under this article, apply in person or by attorney to the justice issuing the warrant, on at least one day’s notice […]

102 – Undertaking to Accompany Application for Discharge.

§ 102. Undertaking to accompany application for discharge. The application shall be accompanied by an undertaking to the lienor executed by at least two sureties in a sum at least twice the amount specified in the warrant, to the effect that the person making the application for the discharge of the vessel will pay the […]

103 – Discharge of Warrant.

§ 103. Discharge of warrant. When such undertaking shall have been executed, approved and delivered to the lienor and the taxed fees of the sheriff upon the seizure and detention of the vessel have been paid, the justice shall make an order discharging the warrant, and no further proceedings against the vessel seized shall be […]

104 – Action on Undertaking.

§ 104. Action on undertaking. The undertaking may be prosecuted by action in any court having jurisdiction thereof, at any time within three months after its delivery, but not afterward. If, in such action it is found that any sum is due the plaintiff which was a subsisting lien upon the vessel at the time […]

105 – Costs of Proceedings.

§ 105. Costs of proceedings. The costs of the proceedings in addition to the disbursements shall be: For filing notice of lien, two dollars. For applying for and procuring a warrant if the lien is fifty dollars or under, ten dollars; if the lien exceeds fifty dollars and is not more than two hundred and […]

96 – Contested Claims.

§ 96. Contested claims. The master, owner, agent or consignee of the vessel, or any person having an interest in the proceeds before final distribution thereof, may contest any claim made against the vessel or its proceeds, by filing with such justice a written answer, verified as a pleading in a court of record, designating […]