A Treatise on Mechanics' Liens

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West Publishing Company, 1897 - Mechanics' liens - 969 pages

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Contents

ACCRUAL OF MECHANICS LIENS
55
Delivery of Materials
61
AT TIME OF FILING CLAIM
66
THE CONTRACTContinued
69
Special Contractual Provisions
80
Indefinite Agreements
81
Contracts Payable in Property
82
RECORDING THE CONTRACT 77 Construction of Statutes
83
Sufficiency of Record
84
FULFILLMENT OF CONTRACT DIVISION III
85
Substantial Performance
86
Waiver
87
Performance Prevented by Owner
88
Excuses for Abandonment
89
8485 Contractors Default as Affecting Subcontractors
90
QUANTUM MERUIT 86 Failure without Fault to Complete Work
93
When Recovery Allowed on Quantum Meruit
94
CHAPTER VI
96
Cellars and Foundations
100
Painting Glazing and Papering 95 Furnaces
101
Stoves and Ranges
102
Work Outside of Construction
103
Work Done Away from the Premises
104
What is a Building 100 Fixtures
105
101106 Machinery
106
107108 Improvements Outside of the Building
110
Pipes and Wires in Streets
112
Street Improvements and Sidewalks
114
Cooking 112 Transportation of Materials
115
Work not Specified in Statute
116
Furnishing Money 115 Tearing Down and Moving Buildings
117
Architects
118
Superintendents
119
Materials Furnished Away from the Building
120
Unnecessary and Defective Material
122
CHATTELS REAL
131
EQUITIES OF REDEMPTION
141
EQUITABLE TITLES AND TRUST ESTATES
156
CHAPTER VIII
161
PUBLIC PROPERTY
162
What are Separate Buildings
170
BUILDINGS
178
RAILROADS
185
Laborers Employed by Subcontractors
195
DITCHES AND CANALS
201
FIXTURES
208
MATERIAL MENContinued
213
SUBCONTRACTORS
217
WORKMEN
232
Material Men in Third Degree
245
PRIORITIES AND SUBROGATION
254
LESSOR AND LESSEE
258
Possession
262
INFANTS
276
Trade Fixtures and Tenants Property
288
PURCHASERS
305
Conveyance Subject to Lien
312
MORTGAGEESContinued
314
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Page 161 - The land upon which any building, improvement or structure is constructed, together with a convenient space about the same, or so much as may be required for the convenient use and occupation thereof...
Page 908 - Of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, saving to suitors in all cases the right of a common-law remedy where the common law is competent to give it, and to claimants the rights and remedies under the workmen's compensation law of any State.60 Fourth.
Page 212 - ... every building built, rebuilt, repaired, or improved, together with the necessary lots on which said building may be situated, and every lot, farm, or vessel, or any kind of property not herein enumerated, shall be subject to a lien for the payment of all debts contracted for work done on the same or material furnished...
Page 222 - Contract, the amount of such increase or reduction shall be added to or deducted from the Contract Price as the case may be...
Page 340 - Every building erected within the several counties of this Commonwealth * * * shall be subject to a lien for the payment of all debts contracted for work done or materials furnished for or about the erection or construction of the same.
Page 791 - ... that every bailee for hire who by his labor and skill has imparted an additional value to the goods has a lien upon the property for his reasonable charges.
Page 287 - This lien shall extend to an estate in fee, for life, for years, or any other estate or any right of redemption, or other interest which such owner may have...
Page 134 - No lands acquired under the provisions of this chapter shall in any event become liable to the satisfaction of any debt contracted prior to the issuing of the patent therefor.
Page 457 - ... they shall be wholly void, and no recovery shall be had thereon by either party thereto...
Page 506 - The time, within which any act, provided by the regulation in this subchapter, or an order of the Marine Board of Investigation is to be done, shall be computed by excluding the first day and including the last...

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