0 a person or organization who officially keeps property owned by someone else until money owed to them is paid back: --
The verb olla to be in the potential has the special suppletive form lie-, e.g. the potential of "on haettu" has been fetched is "lienee haettu" may have been fetched.
The right is purely passive; the secured party (the "lienee") has no right to sell the assets - merely a right to refuse to return them until paid.
