Word: liens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lien on the property, to insure that the City will get the money back...
...Junior Tar quickly restored his personal effects. In the U.S. district court where the suit was tried, Klim then won a greater victory. Judge Gerald Levin ruled that California's 95-year-old Innkeeper's Lien Law was unconstitutional. Tracing the statute back to its antecedents in the common law of medieval England, the judge held that the times no longer allow a hotel the right to deprive a nonpaying guest of his property without due process. The statute, Levin said, "effectively clothes the California innkeeper with the badge of the sheriff and the robes of the judge...