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sale
tax sale : a forced sale of property resulting from nonpayment of taxes by the owner compare tax lien at lien b : a contract for selling or disposing of a security or an interest in a … sale 1 a : the transfer of title to property from one party to another for a price ;also
Agistment
the Royal Forest and to collect the money due for it. Agistment does not include a right of lien, Chapman v. Allen, 1631 Cro Car 271. Agistment of sea banks [terr' agitat', Lat.] is where lands are … pasture-land, at a certain rate per week, without letting them the land for their exclusive use as tenants; so called because the cattle are suffered agiser, i.e., to be levant et couchant there. Also the profit of
property
that is usually considered part of the bankruptcy estate 2 : property acquired after the perfection of a lien or security interest ;esp : such property acquired after the creation of a lien or security interest that … property pl: -ties [Anglo-French propreté proprieté, from Latin proprietat- proprietas, from proprius own, particular] 1 : something (as an interest, money, or land) that is owned or possessed see also asset, estate, interest, possession abandoned
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Innkeeper
lien upon the goods of their guests for board and lodging, but may not detain their persons or seize their clothing in actual wear. They are also liable for any loss of or injury to goods, money,
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 … on the last day of the month or after that date, and when the remuneration considering the general standards of payments is fairly high, then it has to be understood as salary, K.V.V. Sharma (in re), (1952)
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 … implication binds himself to deliver possession of the mortgaged property to the mortgagee, and authorise him to retain such possession until payment of the mortgage-money, and to receive the rents and profits accruing from the property or
Freight
to be carried and through any fault of the consignor has not been carried. As to the shipowners' lien for freight, see (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, ss. 494, 495 (repeating ss. 68-70 of the repealed Merchant … Freight, the sum paid by a merchant or other person chartering a ship or part of a ship, or sending goods
redeem
1 a : repurchase b : to repurchase by right and not on the open market [ preferred shares] 2 a : to free from a lien or pledge usually by payment of the amount secured thereby
Demurrage
beyond a specified time. The Port Trust with a view to recover those dues would ordinarily have a lien on the goods and can refuse to deliver the goods till the demurrage charges are paid, Sun Export … Demurrage, a term used in commercial navigation, signifying on allowance made to the owners of a ship by the freighter, for detaining her in port longer
Salvage
allowed by all modern maritime states; the person who saves goods from loss or imminent peril has a lien upon them, and may retain them till payment of salvage. In this, however, the maritime law differs from … Salvage, allowance or compensation made by maritime law to those by whose exertions ships or goods have been saved
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