Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who has a lien.

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  • noun law A lienholder.
  • noun law, Australia A lienee.

Etymologies

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From lien +‎ -or.

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Examples

  • The statute further provides that an owner shall be under no obligation to any lienor, except laborers, from whom he or she has not received a notice to owner at the time of making a payment.

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  • He's an incorrigible fot. — — Here my lienor T '- mi Holborm, here's forty fiiillings for you.

    The recruiting officer; a comedy. Marked with the variations in the manager's book, at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, London, Printed for T. Lowndes, T. Caslon, T. Becket, and W. Nicoll 1776

  • BY the present occasion I have the lienor of transmitting you a monthly recapitulation of meteorological observations for the year 1800; to which I have subjoined remarks calcu - lated to convey some idea of the nature of our climate. —

    Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 1771

  • When the creditor has paid to the mortgagee, pledgee, lienor or conditional vendor, or his assigns, the amount ordered by the court, he may retain out of the proceeds of the property attached, when sold, the amount so paid with interest, and the balance shall be appHed to the payment of his debt.

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

  • Such lien shall also include the value or agreed price, if any, of all materials furnished by the lienor in connection with such work, or storage, whether added to such article or articles or other - wise.

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

  • The rights of an attaching creditor shall not prevail as against the lien for personal labor pro - vided for in section one, nor against the claim of a lienor where notice or notices of contract have been filed or re - corded in the registry of deeds as provided in sections two and three a prior to the recording of the attachment.

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

  • If the balance as stated in the account, whether then payable or not, is not paid, or tendered to the mort - gagee, pledgee, lienor or conditional vendor, or his assigns, within ten days after such service, the attachment shall be dissolved and the attaching creditor shall be liable to him for any damage he has sustained by the attachment, and the property shall be restored to the person entitled thereto.

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

  • Such notice may be served by mail, directed to the owner's last known address, or, if the owner's address be imknown, it may be posted in two public places in the town where he resided at the time such articles were delivered to the lienor.

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

  • If the mortgagee, pledgee, Penalty for lienor or conditional vendor, or his assigns, demands and demand! 'receives more than the amount due to him, he shall be liable to the attaching creditor for money had and received for the excess, with interest thereon at the rate of twelve per cent a year.

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

  • If, upon such examina - tion or verdict, the mortgage, pledge, lien or contract of conditional sale is adjudged valid, the mortgagee, pledgee, lienor or conditional vendor, or his assigns, shall recover his costs.

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

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