Artisans and Service Liens
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Every person who, while lawfully in possession of an article of personal property, renders any service to the owner thereof, by labor or skill, employed for the protection, improvement, safekeeping, or carriage thereof, has a special lien thereon, dependent on possession, for the compensation, if any, which is due to him from the owner for such service. (West's Ann.Cal.Civ.Code § 3051)
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Since the Artisan or Service Provider must be lawfully in possession of the property, the priority lien should not apply to true leases because the lessee is not the owner of the property, unless the lessor has given the lessee actual or ostensible authority to hire the third party.
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Marshall F. Goldberg
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