general lien
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 74 U.S. 205 - Brown v. Pierce · 1868Most cited · 89 citing opinions
a judgment creates only a general lien, and the judgment creditor acquires thereby no higher or better right to the property or assets of the debtor, than the debtor himself had when the judgment was rendered, unless he can show some fraud or collusion to impair his rights
How often courts cite the case defining “general lien”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “general lien” — 89 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.