I just saw this but don’t have the link right now. From what I read, some high faluting lawyer or something similar had his houseboat seized for nonpayment of taxes or something under admiralty law. It got to the SCOTUS and those morons ruled a houseboat is not a vessel and therefore could not be seized that way. GD lawyers…
Can someone find the story and post orforward it to me so we can pick it apart? It seems like a fun one to go after at present.
“But for the fact that it floats, nothing about Lozman’s home suggests that it was designed to any practical degree to transport persons or things over water.”
1 USC 3 describes vessel as “every description of watercraft or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on water.”
A couple of outboards controlled by WiFi from that balcony and you could take your house for a spin on a lake or canal.
(If at night you’d have to carry lanterns)
sure
I’m thinking of Forbes Island Forbes Island - Wikipedia
It is capable of self propulsion but I dont think any reasonable observer would call it a vessel.