CATCHINGS


Things caught, and in the possession, custody, power, and dominion of the party, with a present capacity to use them for hls own purposes. The term includes blubher, dr pieces of whale flesh cut from the whale, and stowed on or under the deck of a. ship. A policy of lnsurance upon out-fits, and cntchings substituted for the outfits, in a whaling voyage, protects the blubber. Rogers v. Insurance Co., 1 Story, 603; Fed. Cas. No. 12.016; 4 Law Rep. 297