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Word 'Lien'
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....'specific lien', 'general lien', 'partners lien', etc. etc. In Halsbury's Laws of England, Fourth Edition, Volume 28 at page 221, para 502 it is stated : In its primary or legal sense "lien" means a right at common law in one man to retain that which is rightfully and continuously in his possession belonging to another until the present and accrued claims are satisfi....
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....dea of a deed or bond, and necessarily implies that there is something in existence to which it attaches. At page 393 of the same Volume it is stated : The word 'lien' has a well-known signification. In law it signifies an obligation, tie, or claim annexed to or attaching upon any property, without satisfying which such property cannot be demanded by its owner, vide Storm v. Waddell, N....
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.... in Clause 14 means the title of a railway employee to hold substantively a permanent post to which he has been permanently appointed. According to this definition, therefore, the appellant and respondents 4 to 8 were entitled to, with effect from August 15, 1947 (when all of them were made permanent), a lien on the respective posts to which, as from that day, they were confirmed and made permanen....
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....gage is created by deposit of title deeds, the mortgagee has a legal lien on the deeds deposited." This leads us to the question as to what right is available to the applicant-company, as the holder of lien. That again takes us to the question as to what is meant by "lien". The word "lien" is defined in the Law Lexicon by Ramanatha Iyer as: "A lien may be defined to be a charge on property f....