lien
30
9.4
- noun
- /liːən/
- Specialized
:
gravamen
- There are no liens or claims on your joint assets, Mrs. Goodman.
- statutory liens
- priority liens
- lien on the property
If it doesn't, they might sue them and might get a lien on their house.
- If it doesn't, they might sue them and might get a lien on their house.
- Otherwise liens, those are things that, you know, got to be paid.
- And that's when you're going to meet a lien, not computer science a lien, but payment a lien.
- I read it also that you, you put the lien down.
- And then when we got a title, you know, he has like all this crap going on, bankruptcies, extra liens, all these things.
- So what I would do is I would put AI would put a lien from a lender on some of the properties.
- And if you don't pay the fine, then they'll send the fine to the California Franchise Tax Board to basically lien you up until you pay.
- And so I also had this problem, Rich, where when I started getting booked for speeches, we had liens on our house.
- And I would lie there and I would think about the lien on the House and I would think about the bankruptcy that we were facing.
- Maybe you've heard people say, well, I want to go get the tax liens and the tax defaults, right?
- Maybe they're investing in annuities, maybe they're investing in tax liens.
- It wasn't part of the readings, but other than a lien.
Examples
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The bank has placed a lien on the car until the loan is paid in full.
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I'm gonna pay our tax lien off.
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I would have to sign some papers to say I can consent to him getting a lien on the House.
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Pay off the lien, get a new contract, go back to being tenants next year.
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If the supplier did not perform this duty, he could not exercise a lien on the ship.
Academic text (2017) -
The lien also applies to property you acquire after the lien is issued.
Academic text (2006) -
We still have liens on the House.
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And they've put a lien on the property.
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Mr Duggan has no lien on your property.
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If it doesn't, they might sue them and might get a lien on their house.
Synonyms
3
7.6
A claim by the government on property like a house for unpaid taxes that lets the government take it
1
9.8
A right to hold a property until a worker or supplier gets paid
1
8.1
A right the federal government takes on your property when you do not pay taxes you owe
1
7.9
A claim a state makes on your property when you do not pay taxes, so it can sell the property
A right to keep a finished item until the person who made it gets paid
A right that lets a garage keep a car until the owner pays for repairs or storage
The right to keep stored goods until the owner pays storage fees
A right to take a tenant's property to pay unpaid rent or to cover damage
A right to keep all of a person's property until they pay what they owe
A court's right to take property from a person who owes money
Compounds
- Specialized
3
7.6
A claim by the government on property like a house for unpaid taxes that lets the government take it
- Specialized
1
8.1
A right the federal government takes on your property when you do not pay taxes you owe
- Specialized
1
7.9
A claim a state makes on your property when you do not pay taxes, so it can sell the property
- Formal
A right to take a tenant's property to pay unpaid rent or to cover damage
- Formal
A right that lets a garage keep a car until the owner pays for repairs or storage
How Restrictive
- Formal
71
6.1
- Specialized
30
9.4
- Specialized
526
5.4
- Formal
1
8.9
340
3.0
- Specialized
9
9.5
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word lien comes from the Latin ligare, meaning 'to bind', and is like the idea in obligation. So, a lien is a legal 'tie' that 'binds' someone's property until the debt is paid.