In law, a lien is a form of security interest granted over an item of property to secure the payment of a debt or performance of some other obligation.
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Lien
//liːn//
Synonyms for "lien" (37 found)
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9 entriesTranslations
26 translations across 19 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- retensiereg noun (right to take and hold debtor’s property)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 留置權 /留置权 noun (right to take and hold debtor’s property)
Czech
2 entries- retenční právo noun (right to take and hold debtor’s property)
- zadržovací právo noun (right to take and hold debtor’s property)
Dutch
1 entries- retentierecht noun (right to take and hold debtor’s property)
Finnish
3 entries- kiinnitys noun (right to take and hold debtor’s property)
- panttioikeus noun (right to take and hold debtor’s property)
- pidätysoikeus noun (right to take and hold debtor’s property)
French
1 entries- droit de rétention noun (right to take and hold debtor’s property)
German
2 entries- Retentionsrecht noun (right to take and hold debtor’s property)
- Zurückbehaltungsrecht noun (right to take and hold debtor’s property)
Hungarian
1 entries- visszatartási jog noun (right to take and hold debtor’s property)
Italian
1 entries- diritto di retenzione noun (right to take and hold debtor’s property)
Japanese
1 entries- 担保物権 noun (right to take and hold debtor’s property)
Māori
3 entries- riana noun (right to take and hold debtor’s property)
- riena noun (right to take and hold debtor’s property)
- rīana noun (right to take and hold debtor’s property)
Polish
1 entries- prawo zatrzymania noun (right to take and hold debtor’s property)
Portuguese
1 entries- direito de retenção noun (right to take and hold debtor’s property)
Russian
2 entries- зало́г noun (right to take and hold debtor’s property)
- зало́говое пра́во noun (right to take and hold debtor’s property)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- pravo zadržaja noun (right to take and hold debtor’s property)
Slovak
1 entries- záložné právo noun (right to take and hold debtor’s property)
Slovene
1 entries- zastavna pravica noun (right to take and hold debtor’s property)
Spanish
1 entries- derecho de retención noun (right to take and hold debtor’s property)
Welsh
1 entries- hawlrwym noun (right to take and hold debtor’s property)
Sample sentences
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There's a lien on my house.
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The interplanetary bank placed a lien on Tom's space cruiser.
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[…] every youth movement presents itself as loan to the future, and tries to call in its lien in advance, but when there is no future all loans are canceled.
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