specific lien
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 288 U.S. 290 - New York v. Maclay · 1933Most cited · 391 citing opinions
To hold that a lien has progressed to such a point as to be a warning to mortgagees and purchasers of a contingent liability, like a notice of lis pendens, is far from holding that, while the liability is unliquidated and unknown, the lien thus created is perfect and specific.
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “specific lien” — 391 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.