Sentence examples for liens from inspiring English sources

Since its creation in 1995, the Republic of Texas has filed a staggering $93 trillion in liens, claiming assets that belong to the "sovereign Republic of Texas".The Republic's members compare their stand with the siege of the Alamo, when the identity of Texas was forged by the annihilation of the Alamo's outnumbered, outgunned heroes.

Chrysler's senior secured creditors have a right to the economic value of their liens, which is either liquidation value or stand-alone reorganisation value.

They do not address the problem of multiple claims on the same underlying assets, for instance: that would probably require banks holding junior liens to take a more realistic view of their value and write them down.

Also, many homes have several claims or "liens" on them, which complicate any debt reduction.

Regulators should force banks to write down the value of second liens, which are often held at vastly inflated values on their balance-sheets.

These lenders have resisted modification of first mortgages, fearing knock-on write-downs of their second liens.

But they also harassed large numbers of ordinary people, not least by filing false property liens on their houses.

These data include birth certificates, business licences, liens, convictions and so on.

The motivation to avoid modifying second liens is likely to be stronger than a few thousand dollars in incentive payments for investors and servicers.

A work of art may also carry liens after being used as a collateral for a loan.

Some have dozens of liens against them.