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lien - What does it mean?

Definition of 'lien'

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (obsolete) A tendon.
  • (legal) A legal claim; a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty.
  • * 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 7:
  • Bodin deemed the king of France's power as absolute in the sense that the ruler was ‘absolved’ by divine sanction from legally binding liens and restrictions.

    Quotations

    * (seeCites)

    Derived terms

    * lienholder

    Verb

    (head)
  • (Bible|archaic)
  • If no man have lien with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness, being under thy husband, be thou free from this water of bitterness that causeth the curse...

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    Similar to 'lien'

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