general lien

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   a lien on all the property owned by a debtor and not just a specific property

   Broaderlien

Questions about general lien

What does general lien mean?

general lien means "a lien on all the property owned by a debtor and not just a specific property".

Is general lien a common word?

general lien is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.