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lien

/leen, lee-uhn/US // lin, ˈli ən //UK // (ˈliːən, liːn) //

留置权,留置,留置權,滞留

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Law. the legal claim of one person upon the property of another person to secure the payment of a debt or the satisfaction of an obligation.

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Examples

  • The tax code sets guidelines around what it calls extraordinary collection actions, which include lawsuits, garnishments and liens for unpaid hospital bills.

  • Others garnish tax refunds or paychecks, put a lien on properties and bank accounts or even take claimants to court.

  • The agency, he added, is “not issuing new garnishments or liens at this time” and has also requested discretion to waive PUA overpayments.

  • Approval also means a business status check into litigation history, including past judgments and previous liens filed against it.

  • Republicans in the Florida Senate, led by Brandes, pushed for a version of the law that would have permitted felons to vote once a judge converted the debts to civil liens — a common practice once a felon is no longer imprisoned or on probation.

  • Lien had been taken to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, where he was treated and released.

  • Lien kept going and the bikers pursued him, horns beeping, the big buzz now sounding frenzied, furious.

  • They cut in and out were generally so reckless that Lien became one of 200 citizens who called 911 about bikers that day.

  • Lien and Ng were celebrating a much happier marker, their first wedding anniversary.

  • But Lien was a 33 year-old e-commerce executive with his young family.

  • A corporation has no lien on its stock for the indebtedness of the owner unless conferred by charter or statute.

  • He has a special interest or property in them, and a lien thereon for advances in money that he may make to the owners.

  • A garage keeper is generally allowed a lien on an automobile for storage and repairs.

  • A vendor or seller of property, may have for the money he is to receive a lien, which is nearly the same thing as a mortgage.

  • A subsequent purchaser would be affected by this lien, however innocent he might be of its existence.