0 an official order that allows someone to keep the property of a person who owes them money until it has been paid --
1 an official order that allows someone to keep the property of a person who owes them money until the money has been paid back: --
The bank intends to hold a lien on the entire balance for the $400 due.
a lien against sth Officials want to place a lien against half of the home to ensure payment.
State law allows the city to put a lien on the property to grab its money when it's sold.
This could occur where someone has a lien over the goods, i.e. a right to retain possession of them until a debt is paid.
On the other hand, the innkeeper is deprived of his lien on those goods, vehicles or animals, which up to now he has enjoyed.
He might leave them with the printer and leave his bill unpaid, so that again there would be a lien.
If it is his money, then one could take a lien on it.
Secondly, what is the extent of the lien that the service company should be entitled to exercise?
They, of course, take a lien on their boats and gear, but it evidently pays, or it would not continue.
That would be a prior lien really upon the funds.
I would suggest that it is quite impossible to give a prior lien on several benefits.
He said that there was; a lien against that money.
