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Lien

Lien is a lender’s claim on assets offered as security for a loan.

Webster Dictionary Meaning

1. Lien
- of Lie
2. Lien
- A legal claim; a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty; a right in one to control or hold and retain the property of another until some claim of the former is paid or satisfied.
3. Lien
- of Lie. See Lain.
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