The phrase "as a lien" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in legal or financial contexts to refer to a legal right or interest that a lender has in the borrower's property, granted until the debt obligation is satisfied.
Example: "The bank placed a lien on the property as a lien to secure the loan."
Alternatives: "as a claim" or "as a security interest".
In the case of debt, a money judgment acts as a lien on all of the debtor's property and on all property that he has transferred away to escape his creditors.
I checked with the Register's Office and found out that they never received the mortgage for cancellation and that the mortgage is still listed as a lien against my property.
Abandoned seafarers have a right, known as a lien, to be paid their wages from the sale of the vessel, but lose those rights if they leave the ship, Hammond says.
If that mortgage is not paid off at closing, Mr. Brav said, the mortgage would remain as a lien on the property, making it possible for the person who held the mortgage to foreclose if the mortgage was not paid in full -- even though the property has a new owner.
If the subtenant has no such accounts, but does have other assets that could be subject to a lien -- a house, for example -- the prime tenant can also file the judgment as a lien in the public records, in which case the lien would normally have to be satisfied before the property could be sold.
Subsection (a) defines "cash collateral" as cash, negotiable instruments, documents of title, securities, deposit accounts, or other cash equivalents in which the estate and an entity other than the estate have an interest, such as a lien or a co-ownership interest.
The USOC went so far as putting a lien (later withdrawn) on the home of Waddell -- who was very ill with HIV/AIDS at the time -- to recoup $96,000 in attorneys' fees.
Williams paid under protest, solely to gain release of the Government's lien on her property--a lien she attacked as erroneously maintained.
Read the report to learn whether the vehicle has ever had a lien, as well as other owners and ways it has been registered in the past.
If you owe the IRS $10,000 or more, the federal government (and possibly the state as well) might put a lien on your property, according to Josh Zimmelman, owner of Westwood Tax & Consulting in Manhattan and Long Island.
Whether transactions of the character mentioned are to be deemed absolute sales of the goods on the part of the vendor, with a proviso for withholding their delivery until actual payment, so as to preserve a lien for the price, or only as executory contracts of sale, not completed until actual delivery, there is a diversity of opinion.
