 | John Gaylord Wells - 1875 - 628 trang
...lands or tenements. LIBEL. — (See article LIBEL AND SLANDER.) LIEN. — A legal claim ; a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty ; the right which a creditor has to retain the property of his debtor, until the debt has been paid.... | |
 | John Gaylord Wells - 1879 - 622 trang
...lands or tenements. LIBEL. — (See article LIBEL AND SLANDER.) LIEN. — A legal claim ; a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty ; the right which a creditor has to retain the property of his debtor, until the debt has been paid.... | |
 | 1885 - 550 trang
...executor after probate of a will, authorizing him to act as executor. ' . Lien. A legal claim; a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty; power to prevent sale by another. Liquidation. The act of settling and adjusting debts. Loan. Money... | |
 | Henry Allyn Haigh - 1887 - 569 trang
...calculated to injure another by bringing him into ridicule or contempt. Lien. A legal claim ; a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty; the right which a creditor has to retain the property of his debtor, until the debt has been paid.... | |
 | George N. McLean - 1890 - 216 trang
...executor, after probate of a will, authorizing him to act as executor. Lien — A legal claim ; a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt, or to prevent sale by another. Liquidation — The act of settling and adjusting debts. Manifest — A... | |
 | Albert Elias Maltby - 1910 - 536 trang
...18; and law, 359. Librarian, State, 109, 115; of Congress, 256, 306. Lien: a legal claim; a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty. INDEX AND DEFINITIONS Lieutenant General, 296. Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, presides over the... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1910 - 538 trang
...Liege'man, n. ; pi. -MEN. A vassal; subject. Lien, le'en or li'en, n. (Law.) A legal claim ; a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty. Lien, hi, n. Place ; room ; stead.— Lieuten 'ant, lu- or leMen'ant, n. An officer, civil or military,... | |
 | William Joseph Pelo - 1925 - 684 trang
...credit. letters of administration, an "mcial instrument issued by a ~"t by which an administrator ited authority to manage and settle the business affairs...liquidation, the settling of the liabilities of a business. Loyd's, a marine insurance association with its central offices located in London, having for its main... | |
 | Nathan William MacChesney - 1927 - 960 trang
...act or series of acts upon another's land without possessing any estate therein. LIEN. — A charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty. LIEN OP LESSORS. — A provision in a lease which gives the landlord a lien on the crops of the tenant... | |
 | Louisiana State Bar Association - 1923 - 316 trang
...Thus designating privileges, mortgages and pledges. "Webster defines a lien as 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 uf another until some claim of the former... | |
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LIEN. — A legal claim ; a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty ; the right which a creditor has to retain the property of his debtor, until the debt has been paid. 
