lienin a sentence
- The IRS filed a tax lien on her home.
- The roofing company filed on lien on the house until they were paid.
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This says they can't execute the lien on you unless the bill remains unpaid by March 25th.
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lien = a legal right to take another's property if a debt is not paid
- Liens?† (source)
- But I never heard of a lien being collected.† (source)
- A lien on ten dollars of that money they've got drawing dust under my name over in Funds.† (source)
- Because the idea of that held such appeal, he reached for the phone to call her, v, lien he heard the sound behind him and turned.† (source)
- After they split up, she tried to sue him for a lien against future earnings.† (source)
- She checked the lien books and found dozens of claims for unpaid taxes, unpaid supplies, unpaid subcontractors.† (source)
- Well, if it ain't, boy, you cain't git no lien from the store.† (source)
- Do not struggle for profit, success or security at the price of a lien on your right to exist.† (source)
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- A largish sum was missing (not three figures but four, according to a lady with blue hair who worked in the telephone room) and they'd got it back, nearly all of it, and they'd stuck a lien on his pension.† (source)
- The lien was little more than a formality.† (source)
- If you pay it before they close the town offices this afternoon, no lien.† (source)
- Hollering "lien" at someone who has missed on quarterly property-tax payment is pretty weird.† (source)
- I just meant that a lien isn't much compared to what they could do if you got seriously in arrears.† (source)
- And if n you don't git no lien, you cain't buy no seed and guano.† (source)
- 'What's a lien?' she asked again.† (source)
- He wasn't telling you they had slapped a lien on your house, Annie , he was telling you they would have to if you didn't cough up by the time the town offices closed tonight.† (source)
- Liens!† (source)
- The guys all go to signing liens at once; he's beat them so many times at poker and blackjack they can't wait to get back at him, and this is a certain sure thing.† (source)
- Such a lien is not to be paid off; the more you pay them, the more they will demand; the greater the values you seek or achieve, the more vulnerably helpless you become.† (source)
- But with the carrying out of the crop-lien system, the deterioration of the land, and the slavery of debt, the position of the metayers has sunk to a dead level of practically unrewarded toil.† (source)
- The crop-lien system which is depopulating the fields of the South is not simply the result of shiftlessness on the part of Negroes, but is also the result of cunningly devised laws as to mortgages, liens, and misdemeanors, which can be made by conscienceless men to entrap and snare the unwary until escape is impossible, further toil a farce, and protest a crime.† (source)
- The crop-lien system which is depopulating the fields of the South is not simply the result of shiftlessness on the part of Negroes, but is also the result of cunningly devised laws as to mortgages, liens, and misdemeanors, which can be made by conscienceless men to entrap and snare the unwary until escape is impossible, further toil a farce, and protest a crime.† (source)
- He paid me the compliment of saying that he was very glad I had the living though you had come across his tactics, and had praised me up as a lien and a Tillotson, and that sort of thing, till Mrs. Casaubon would hear of no one else.† (source)
- Mr. Casaubon was out of the question, not merely because he declined duty of this sort, but because Featherstone had an especial dislike to him as the rector of his own parish, who had a lien on the land in the shape of tithe, also as the deliverer of morning sermons, which the old man, being in his pew and not at all sleepy, had been obliged to sit through with an inward snarl.† (source)
- But my assistance may give him the means To restore his lands and remove his liens.† (source)
- one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.† (source)
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Then read he me, if that I shall not lien,
Of Hercules, and of his Dejanire,
That caused him to set himself on fire.† (source)
- 68:13 Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.† (source)
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Ye wise wives, that can understand,
Thus should ye speak, and *bear them wrong on hand,* *make them
For half so boldely can there no man believe falsely*
Swearen and lien as a woman can.† (source)
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On peril of my soul, I shall not lien,
As me was taught to helpe with your eyen,
Was nothing better for to make you see,
Than struggle with a man upon a tree:
God wot, I did it in full good intent.† (source)
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