LIEN

p. n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
p.

of Lie. See lain. Ps. lxviii. 13.

2.
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.


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