{"id":3212,"date":"2021-08-09T17:56:03","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T09:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/?p=3212"},"modified":"2024-09-09T09:11:38","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T01:11:38","slug":"admiralty-maritime-lien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/my\/admiralty-maritime-lien\/","title":{"rendered":"ADMIRALTY \u2013 MARITIME LIEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Q: What is a Maritime Lien?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Maritime lien has its origin from civil law i.e. the French Code Civil. It is a concept of maritime law.<\/li>\n<li>Maritime lien is different from the common law concept of possessory lien. Strictly speaking, there is no possession in maritime lien.<\/li>\n<li>Rather, maritime lien is a claim or privilege that attaches on a ship regardless of who owns the ship.<\/li>\n<li>Maritime lien can only be enforced by proceeding <em>in rem<\/em> irrespective of who owns the ship. In another words, it \u201c<em>travels with the ship into whosoever\u2019s possession<\/em>\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Q: What type of claim is classed as Maritime Lien?<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>There are 6 categories of claim classed as maritime lien as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Damage done by a ship (eg. collision);<\/li>\n<li>Salvage;<\/li>\n<li>Seamen\u2019s wages;<\/li>\n<li>Bottomry and respondentia (which is no longer applicable in present days);<\/li>\n<li>Master\u2019s wages; and\/or<\/li>\n<li>Master\u2019s disbursements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Q: The Americans have 7<sup>th<\/sup> category of maritime lien for ship repairer. Can ship repairer enforce maritime lien in Malaysia?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>No.<\/u><\/strong> As we have earlier stated, maritime lien can only be enforced by proceeding <em>in rem<\/em>. The categories of maritime lien are governed by the law of which the country the proceeding <em>in rem<\/em> is brought. If the <em>in rem<\/em> action is brought in Malaysia, the law on maritime lien in Malaysia applies. This is known as determination by the <em>lex fori<\/em> (as opposed to <em>lex causae<\/em>). As the law in Malaysia does not recognize the category of ship repairer having maritime lien, ship repairer cannot enforce their right as maritime lienee in Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Q: What is the significant of having a maritime lien?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Maritime lienee can bring an action <em>in rem<\/em> against a ship irrespective of who owns the ship at the time when the action in rem is filed.<\/li>\n<li>Maritime lienee\u2019s claim is ranked above mortgage claim for payment out of claims in admiralty actions in rem. This is one of the top categories in ranking.<\/li>\n<\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is maritime lien? What type of claim is classed as Maritime Lien? What is the significant of having a maritime lien?<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1576],"tags":[2327,2325,2326],"class_list":["post-3212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-admiralty","tag-claim","tag-lien","tag-maritime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3220,"href":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212\/revisions\/3220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}