Definition of lien

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Lien (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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Resiliency :: Resiliency (n.) The act of resiling, springing back, or rebounding; as, the resilience of a ball or of sound..
Entail :: Entail (n.) To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as an heritage..
Abalienate :: Abalienate (v. t.) To transfer the title of from one to another; to alienate.
Lien :: Lien () of Li.
Clientele :: Clientele (n.) The persons who make habitual use of the services of another person; one's clients, collectively; as, the clientele of a lawyer, doctor, notary, etc..
Resiliency :: Resiliency (n.) The mechanical work required to strain an elastic body, as a deflected beam, stretched spring, etc., to the elastic limit; also, the work performed by the body in recovering from such strain..
Nonalienation :: Nonalienation (n.) Failure to alienate; also, the state of not being alienated..
Lienteric :: Lienteric (a.) Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, a lientery..
Perpetuity :: Perpetuity (n.) The quality or condition of an estate by which it becomes inalienable, either perpetually or for a very long period; also, the estate itself so modified or perpetuated..
Irreconcile :: Irreconcile (v. t.) To prevent from being reconciled; to alienate or disaffect.
Alienability :: Alienability (n.) Capability of being alienated.
Triquetrous :: Triquetrous (a.) Three sided, the sides being plane or concave; having three salient angles or edges; trigonal..
Unsecularize :: Unsecularize (v. t.) To cause to become not secular; to detach from secular things; to alienate from the world.
Salience :: Salience (n.) The quality or state of projecting, or being projected; projection; protrusion..
Jubilee :: "Jubilee (n.) Every fiftieth year, being the year following the completion of each seventh sabbath of years, at which time all the slaves of Hebrew blood were liberated, and all lands which had been alienated during the whole period reverted to their former owners..
Devest :: Devest (v. t.) To take away, as an authority, title, etc., to deprive; to alienate, as an estate..
Distaste :: Distaste (n.) Alienation of affection; displeasure; anger.
Attornment :: Attornment (n.) The act of a feudatory, vassal, or tenant, by which he consents, upon the alienation of an estate, to receive a new lord or superior, and transfers to him his homage and service; the agreement of a tenant to acknowledge the purchaser of the estate as his landlord..
Lientery :: Lientery (n.) A diarrhea, in which the food is discharged imperfectly digested, or with but little change..
Clientage :: Clientage (n.) A body of clients.
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