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terre tenant

tenir to hold] : one in actual possession of land ;specif : one who purchases land after a lien of mortgage or judgment has attached used chiefly in the law of Pennsylvania

title 1

improvements (like renovations or repairs) to their home; Title I loans less than $7,500 don't require a property lien. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Jus offerendi

Jus offerendi, means the right of subrogation; the right to succeed to a senior creditor's lien and priority upon tendering the amount due to that creditor, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 866.

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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

Rescission

Lipski, (1901) 2 Ch 666. Where a purchaser rescinds under a power in the contract he has a lien for his deposit, Whitbread & Co. v. Watt, (1902) 1 Ch 835, but before 1926 the purchaser in

Retention

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

Stop Order

of such tock or funds, or any part thereof, without notice to him. And a person having a lien on a fund in Court may obtain a stop order. See (English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XLVI.; and consult

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

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

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

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