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n. The right to take and hold or sell the property of a debtor as security or payment for a debt or duty.

n. A tendon.

n. A legal claim; a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty.

v. Alternative form of lain.

p. p. of lie. See lain.

n. 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.

n. An obsolete or archaic past participle of lie.

n. In law: The right of a person having possession of the property of another to retain it until some charge upon it or some demand due him is satisfied; the right to enforce a charge upon a specific thing by withholding possession from the owner until the charge is satisfied.

n. Hence— A right of a creditor to have a debt or charge satisfied by legal proceedings out of specific property or its proceeds, irrespective of having possession.

n. Hence A claim; occasion of demand; right to compensation.

n. The spleen.

n. a large dark-red oval organ on the left side of the body between the stomach and the diaphragm; produces cells involved in immune responses

n. the right to take another's property if an obligation is not discharged

"Not to mention embarrassed if the lien is publicized."

truth   

lymphatic tissue    lymphoid tissue   

extend    be    consist    inhere    vendor's liens    retaining lien    charging lien    lien de droit    attorney's lien    mechanic's lien   

lie    lain   

lienholder   

falsehood    equivocation    falsity    untruth    story    mendacity    fib    romance    concoction    imagination   

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liens    lienholder