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Vendor's lien

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

A lien for purchase money remnining unpnid, allowed in equity to the vendor of land, when the statement of receipt of the price in the deed is not in accordance with the fact. Also, a lien existing in the unpaid vendor of chattels, the same remaining in his bands, to the extent of the purchase price, where the sale was for cash, or on a term of credit which has expired, or on an agreement by which the seller Is to retain possession.

See Morgan v. Dalrymple, 59 N. J. Eq. 22, 46 Atl 664; Lee v. Murphy, 119 Cal. 364, 51 Pac. 549 ; Graham v. Moffett, 119 Mich. 303, 78 N. W. 132, 75 Am. St. Rep. 393; Gessner v. Palmateer. 89 Cal. 89, 26 Pac. 789, 13 L. R. A. 187; Blomstrom v. Dux, 175 111. 435, 51 N. E. 755; Tieman v. Beam, 2 Ohio, 388, 15 Am. Dec. 557; Warford v. Hankins, 150 Ind. 489, 50 N. E. 468; Slide & Spur Gold Mines v. Seymour, 153 U. S. 509 , 14 Sup. Ct 842, 38 L. Ed. 802.