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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Lien

Lī'en, p. p.

past participle

of lie. [Obs.] See LAIN.

Li′en, n.

noun

(lē′en, or lī′en) (Synop., § 130), n. [Fr. lien, band, bond, tie, from Lat. ligamen, from ligare, Fr. lier, to bind.] (Law.) A legal claim; a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty; a right in one to hold and retain the property of another until some claim of the former is paid or satisfied.