PROPERTY TO WHICH LIEN EXTENDS
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case MG Building Materials, Ltd. v. Moses Lopez Custom Homes, Inc. (2005)
Most recently applied in IQ Holdings, Inc. v. Stewart Title Guaranty Company and Stewart Title Company F/K/A Stewart Title Company of Houston (November 2014)
Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3536, 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.
(a) The lien extends to the improvements and to each lot of land necessarily connected.
(b) The lien does not extend to abutting sidewalks, streets, and utilities that are public property.
(c) A lien against land in a city, town, or village extends to each lot on which the improvement is situated or on which the labor was performed.
(d) A lien against land not in a city, town, or village extends to not more than 50 acres on which the improvement is situated or on which the labor was performed.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.