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LANDLORD'S LIEN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lien on a tenant's property for the satisfaction of unpaid rent or property damage; the landlord is given the status of a preferred creditor with regard to the tenant's property
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("landlord's lien" is a kind of...):
lien (the right to take another's property if an obligation is not discharged)