One who sells real property has a vendor’s lien thereon, independent of possession, for so much of the price as remains unpaid and unsecured otherwise than by the personal obligation of the buyer.
Cal. Civ. Code § 3046
Other Liens
Applied in 25 court decisions — leading case Mills v. Mills (1956)
Most recently applied in Finalco, Inc. v. Roosevelt (In Re Roosevelt) (January 1995)
Enacted 1872.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.