Meaning of Lien | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A tendon.
   obsolete
2. The spleen.
   obsolete, possibly, uncommon
3. A right to take possession of a debtor’s property as security until a debt or duty is discharged.

Equivalents

Examples

“[…] every youth movement presents itself as loan to the future, and tries to call in its lien in advance, but when there is no future all loans are canceled.”

“Bodin deemed the king of France's power as absolute in the sense that the ruler was ‘absolved’ by divine sanction from legally binding liens and restrictions.”

“Li'enal. Pertaining to the lien or spleen; splenic.”

“The lien or spleen (figs. 282 to 285) is a soft, highly vascular contractile and very elastic organ of a dark purplish colour. It is placed obliquely behind the stomach, …”

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