A lien obtained by judgment, levy, sequestration, or other legal or equitable process or proceeding. • If a debtor is adjudged to owe money to a creditor and the judgment has not been satisfied, the creditor can ask the court to impose a lien on specific property owned and possessed by the debtor. After the […]
de proprietate probanda (dee pr[schwa]-prI-[schwa]-tay-tee pr[schwa]-ban-d[schwa]), n. [Law Latin “for proving property”] Hist. A writ ordering a sheriff to investigate the ownership of distrained goods claimed by a defendant in a replevin action. “If therefore the distreinor claims any such property, the party replevying must sue out a writ de proprietate probanda, in which the
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King’s silver. Hist. Money paid in the Court of Common Pleas for a license to levy a feudal fine; an amount due on granting a congé d’accorder in levying a fine of lands. • It amounted to three-twentieths of the supposed annual value of the land, or ten shillings for every five marks of land.
licentia concordandi (li-sen-shee-[schwa] kon-kor-dan-dI), n. [Law Latin “license to agree”] Hist. One of the proceedings on levying a fine of lands. See CONGé D’ACCORDER. “The licentia concordandi, or leave to agree the suit. For, as soon as the action is brought, the defendant knowing himself to be in the wrong, is supposed to make overtures
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garnishment, n. 1. A judicial proceeding in which a creditor (or potential creditor) asks the court to order a third party who is indebted to or is bailee for the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor’s property (such as wages or bank accounts) held by that third party. • A