MATERIAL MEN - Steven J. Coker
Subject: MATERIAL MEN
From: Steven J. Coker
Date: December 16, 1998

Extracted From:
  A LAW DICTIONARY ..., SIXTH EDITION, 1856
  by John Bouvier, CHILDS & PETERSON, PHILADELPHIA

MATERIAL MEN. This name is given to persons who furnish materials for the
purpose of constructing or erecting ships, houses, and other buildings. 

By the common law material men have a lien on a foreign ship for supplies of
materials furnished for such ship, which may be recovered in the admiralty....
But they have no lien for furnishing materials for repairs of domestic ships....

In several of the states, laws have been enacted giving material men a lien on
houses and other buildings when they have furnished materials for constructing
the same.

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