warehouseman's lien

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   right of a warehouseman to retain goods until all storage charges have been paid

   Broaderlien

Questions about warehouseman's lien

What does warehouseman's lien mean?

warehouseman's lien means "right of a warehouseman to retain goods until all storage charges have been paid".

Is warehouseman's lien a common word?

warehouseman's 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.