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Retention

retaining property until a debt due to the person claiming the right of retention shall be paid; a lien.

Substantive capacity

means capacity other than an officiating or temporary capacity and would imply that the holder thereof had a lien on his post, Prem Nath Sharma v. Vice-Chancellor, Lucknow, University, AIR 1959 All 618. Substantive capacity, the emphasis

Usufructuary mortgage

accruing from the property or any part of such rents and profits and to appropriate the same in lien of interest, or in payment of the mortgage-money, or partly in lieu of interest or partly in payment

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Wages

to satisfy judgments, (English) Wages Attachment Abolition Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 30). Seamen have a lien on the ship for their wages; they may enforce their claim by an action in rem or in

slander of title

property that causes harm for which special damages may be awarded [damages for the filing of a fraudulent lien and for slander of title "M & P Concrete Prods. v. Woods, 590 So. 2d 429 (1991)"] called

owelty

owelty pl: -ties [Anglo-French oelté equality, from Latin aequalitat- aequalitas] : a lien created or a pecuniary sum paid by order of the court to effect an equitable partition of property

race-notice

property] : of, relating to, or being a recording act which stipulates that an unrecorded deed, mortgage, or lien shall not be valid against a recorded one unless the recording party (as a subsequent purchaser from the

lienable

lienable : capable of being subjected to or made the subject of a lien

purchase

giving other valuable consideration ;specif : to take (property) by a voluntary transaction (as a sale, mortgage, pledge, lien, or gift) that creates an interest and that is governed by the Uniform Commercial Code see also bona

debenture

are owed] : an unsecured bond that is backed by the issuer's general credit rather than a specific lien called also debenture bond see also indenture compare mortgage bond at bond NOTE: Debentures are often convertible to

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