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The Clue

Form of security (4 letter answer)

The Answer

LIEN

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Notes

The answer LIEN is seen frequently, appearing about once every 70 puzzles.

Related Clues

Encumbrance
Mortgage
Tax ___
Attachment by a banker
Bank claim
Bank holding
Banker's protection
Bar to a sale
Certain attachment
Certain encumbrance
Claim on a property
Claim on property
Claim of a sort
Debt satisfier
Debtor's burden
Financial security
Hold on property
Legal claim
Legal right
Property claim
Property encumbrance
Property incumbrance
Property right
Repo justification
Title encumbrance
Certain security interest
Possible prelude to foreclosure
It's put on some houses
A property may have one on it
Something that may be on a house

Definition

LIEN as a noun:

1. the right to take another's property if an obligation is not discharged
2. (spleen, lien) = a large dark-red oval organ on the left side of the body between the stomach and the diaphragm; produces cells involved in immune responses