perfected lien
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 323 U.S. 353 - United States v. Waddill, Holland & Flinn, Inc. · 1945Most cited · 519 citing opinions
The tenant was divested of neither title nor possession by the silent existence of the landlord's statutory lien on the date of the assignment. Only after the lien was actually asserted and an attachment or a distraint levied, enabling the landlord to satisfy his claim out of the seized goods, could it be argued that such goods severed themselves from the general and free assets of the tenant from which the claims of the United States were entitled to priority of payment.
How often courts cite the case defining “perfected lien”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “perfected lien” — 519 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.