What is CATCHINGS? Definition of CATCHINGS in Black's Law Dictionary – Legal dictionary – Glossary of legal terms.
Things caught, and in the posses
sion, custody, power, and dominion of the party, with a present capacity to use them for his own
purposes. The term includes blubber, or pieces of whale flesh cut from the whale, and stowed on or
under the deck of a ship. A policy of insurance upon outfits, and catchings substituted for the out
fits, in a whaling voyage, protects the blubber. Rogers v. Insurance Co., 1 Story, 603; Fed.Cas.No.
12,016; 4 Law Rep. 297.
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