Livingston v. . Farish
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil ActioN tried at Spi'ing Term, 1883, of Nici-imoND Superior Court, before MaeEae, J. The record presents this case: In the month of January, 1881, the plaintiff leased to the defendant a farm, to cultivate and gather the crop therefrom during that year; and the defendant agreed to pay to the plaintiff by the first day of October of that year, as rent for the farm, four hundred and fifty pounds of good merchantable lint cotton.
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Civil ActioN tried at Spi'ing Term, 1883, of Nici-imoND Superior Court, before MaeEae, J. The record presents this case: In the month of January, 1881, the plaintiff leased to the defendant a farm, to cultivate and gather the crop therefrom during that year; and the defendant agreed to pay to the plaintiff by the first day of October of that year, as rent for the farm, four hundred and fifty pounds of good merchantable lint cotton. To enable the defendant to make and gather the crop, the plaintiff furnished him with’supplies amounting in value to twenty-three dollars and twenty-five cents,…
1Opinion of the Court
MeruimoN, J.,
after stating the above. The manifest pur pose of the statute (The Code, §1754) is to create a first lien upon the crops produced upon the lands leased, in favor of the .landlord or his assigns, to secure the payment of the rents and other charges provided for, and to give him in addition to this lieu, to make it more effectual, the possession, not the absolute control and ownership of the crops, until the lien shall in all respects be discharged. The possession is coupled with the lien upon the crops with the view to prevent the lessee or his assigns from using, selling or…
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