Lien Laws Of The State Of New York Including Mechanics Liens On Real Property And Their Enforcement Liens On Vessels And Their Enforcement Liens On Personal Property Chattel Mortgages And Contracts Of Conditional Sale 2nd Ed PDF Download

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: REPORT.OF REVISION COMMISSION. Pheliminaey Note. The following proposed chapter of the general laws to 'be known as the lien law, is a revision of all the existing statutes relating to mechanics' liens on real property, liens on personal property for sendees rendered to the owner thereof and mortgages on chattels, including sales under conditional contracts. It includes the following subjects: ? 1. Mechanics' liens for the improvement of real property and the construction of public works in municipal corporations. 2. Liens on vessels. 3. Liens on monuments, gravestones and cemetery structures. 4. Liens for labor on stone. 5. Liens for service of stallions. 6. Liens on personal property on account of services of artisans, innkeepers, factors, warehousemen, livery-stable- keepers and agisters, and the enforcement of such liens by a sale of the property. 7. Chattel mortgages and sales of goods and chattels under conditional contracts. Mechanics' Liens on Real Property.? The propriety of enacting laws for the protection of laborers and materialmen, performing labor and furnishing material for the improvement of real property is generally conceded. The Legislature of this State recognized this in 1830, by. the passage of chapter 330 of the laws of that year. That act created liens in favor of laborers for work done upon any building in the city of New York, which was, by chap- ter 120 of 1832, extended to materials furnished for the same purpose. Chapter 224 of 1844 created a lien in favor of a contractor or subcontractor, but was.still confined to New York city. In the same year a similar act was passed (chapter 305) applicable to all cities and villages of the State. In 1846 the Richmond county act was passed (chapter 184); in 1851 the We...