EFFECT ON OTHER LIENS
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case R.M. Dudley Construction Co. v. Dawson (2008)
Most recently applied in Ferguson v. Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (October 2015)
Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3525, ch. 576, Sec. 1, eff
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.
Except as provided by Chapter 59, this subtitle does not affect:
(1) the right to create a lien by special contract or agreement; or
(2) a lien that is not treated in this subtitle, including a lien arising under common law, in equity, or under another statute of this state.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.