Hidden Liens And Sympathetic Victims

LexisNexis (December 26, 2016, 3:20 PM EST) -- Liens on personal property can arise from many sources, including contracts, judicial orders, and statutes. Article 9 of the UCC does a fairly comprehensive job of addressing personal property liens involving contracts and judicial orders, but is very limited in addressing other statutes. See UCC § 9-109(c)(2) excluding liens created by other statutes, but note the various UCC provisions addressing "agricultural liens" and UCC §  9-333 addressing the priority of "possessory liens" created by other statutes. These other statutory liens are often "hidden liens" in the sense that there is no public notice of the lien. Examples of such liens include environmental liens, attorneys' liens, and landlord liens....