A person who leases or rents all or part of a building for nonresidential use has a preference lien on the property of the tenant or subtenant in the building for rent that is due and for rent that is to become due during the current 12-month period succeeding the date of the beginning of the rental agreement or an anniversary of that date.
Tex. Prop. Code § 54.021
LIEN
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Crow-Southland Joint Venture No. 1 v. North Fort Worth Bank (1992)
Most recently applied in Crow-Southland Joint Venture No. 1 v. North Fort Worth Bank (August 1992)
Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3559, ch. 576, Sec. 1, eff
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.