Lien used in a sentence

Lien in a sentence as a noun

It's not like a mortgage or a car loan; the phone company doesn't have a lien on your phone.

You can either do it now, or in a mad scramble when the IRS puts a lien on your bank account.

Why not a lien against his military pension?

Worst case, particularly for the elderly, is that a lien is placed on the home such that it must be paid when the home is transferred in any way. So what if DC has to wait 10 years for $137 mistakenly not paid?

The set of laws that allow this insanity are almost certainly the result of lobbying efforts by tax lien buyers.

> If you take your car to the shop and can't pay for the work to be done, they put a mechanic's lien on it, and impound the car until the work is paid for.

"If you take your car to the shop and can't pay for the work to be done, they put a mechanic's lien on it, and impound the car until the work is paid for.

Without this lien waiting for me, I can take comfort knowing that I'm selling at a depressed price but also buying again at a depressed price.

[1] For the curious, the lawyer threatened to put a lien against the company, and they suddenly realized that they really did owe me the money.

Sometimes they are still owned by the original tenants but often they are owned by a real estate investor that did triple net leases to large clients.

HOA management companies issue liens with regularity and it would certainly force the owner to take action.

Under no circumstances should someone be able to foreclose on a property because they hold a lien for less than 1/1000th of the value of the property, then take all of the equity.

Anyway nobody gets thrown out of their house for owing property taxes in California because the local authorities just put liens on the property.

You can just put a lien on it, which is a recorded document that you are legally entitled to be paid first if the person sells their house property, or you can garnish the person's wages or bank account.