Download or read book The Law of Liens in Pennsylvania, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) written by William Trickett and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Law of Liens in Pennsylvania, Vol. 1 of 2 I. The right to detain a chattel or land, from the possession of the owner, until a debt is discharged. The right of a tailor to keep the coat which he has made from his customer's cloth, until his charges are paid, is such a lien. It is, at common law, a right of detention, not of sale. It presupposes possession of the chattel acquired by the consent of the owner; it cannot begin in a forcible or involuntary dispossession of the owner, by the person asserting it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.