Results
Definition of lien:
- A charge, lien, etc., that successively attaches to such assets as a person may have from time to time, leaving him more or less free to dispose of or encumber them as if no such charge or existed.
- A legal claim; a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty; a right in one to control or hold and retain the property of another until some claim of the former is paid or satisfied.
- of Lie, v. i.
- of Lie. See Lain.
Synonyms:
spleen, irascibility, hold on property, charge, claim, real security, quick temper, short temper, security on property.
- credit (part of speech: noun)
-
guarantee (part of speech: noun)
- countersignature,
- collateral,
- security,
- promise,
- pledge,
- assurance,
- guarantee,
- affirmation,
- contract,
- deposit,
- warranty,
- oath,
- insurance,
- bond,
- word,
- safeguard,
- token,
- certification
Usage examples:
-
Furthermore, the dean had promised to keep him till he obtained his secularization from Rome, and with it freedom to return to Venice, for as soon as he ceased to be a monk the Tribunal would have no lien upon him.
-
But with the carrying out of the crop- lien system, the deterioration of the land, and the slavery of debt, the position of the metayers has sunk to a dead level of practically unrewarded toil.
-
It was a legal undertaking by the man to maintain the woman and future family in consideration of her surrender of herself to his exclusive disposal- that is to say, on condition of obtaining a lien on his property, she became a part of it.