Title 10, Title 10

Whoever pastures, feeds or shelters animals by virtue of a contract with or by consent of the owner has a lien thereon for the amount due for such pasturing, feeding or sheltering, and for necessary expenses incurred in the proper care of such animals and in payment of taxes asse…

A person who labors in cutting or harvesting hay has a lien on all the hay cut or harvested by that person and that person's co-laborers for the amount due for that person's personal services and the services performed by that person's team, which takes precedence of all other cl…

Whoever presses hay or straw has a lien on all the hay or straw so pressed for the amount due for such pressing, which takes precedence of all other claims except liens reserved to the State and the lien specified in section 3401 continues for 30 days after said pressing is compl…

Every individual, partnership, firm, association, corporation, institution or any governmental unit or combination or parts of a partnership, firm, association, corporation, institution or governmental unit maintaining and operating a hospital licensed in the State is entitled to…

A lien may not be perfected unless a written notice containing the name and address of the injured person, as it appears on the records of the hospital, the date of the accident, the name and location of the hospital and the name of the person or persons, firm or firms or corpora…

1. Lien reduction; just and equitable basis. A hospital lien must be reduced by the patient's proportionate share of the patient's litigation or other recovery costs, including, but not limited to, reasonable attorney's fees. A hospital lien must be satisfied not on the basis of …

A release of such causes of action, or any of them, or of any judgment on such a cause of action is not valid or effectual as against a lien under this chapter unless the lien holder joins in the action, or executes a release of the lien, and any person or persons, firm or firms …

A municipal clerk shall, at the expense of the municipality, provide a book or card filing system to be called the hospital lien docket in which, upon the filing of a lien claim under this chapter, the clerk shall enter the name of the injured person, the name of the person, firm…

This chapter shall apply only to such charges for medical or other services furnished to persons who were injured by reason of such accidents occurring on or after October 7, 1967.

When a lease of land with a rent payable is made for the purpose of erecting a mill or other buildings thereon, such buildings and all the interest of the lessee are subject to a lien and liable to be attached for the rent due. Such attachment, made within 6 months after the rent…

In all cases where land rent accrues and remains unpaid, whether under a lease or otherwise, all buildings upon the premises while the rent accrues are subject to a lien and to attachment for the rent due, as provided in section 3451, although other persons than the lessee may ow…

Whoever performs labor or services or furnishes labor, materials or services in the laying out or construction of any road, path or walk, or in improving or beautifying any land in a manner commonly known as landscape gardening, by virtue of a contract with or by consent of the o…

A person who performs labor in a tannery where leather of any kind is manufactured completely or partially, whether that labor is performed directly on the hides and skins or in any capacity in or about the establishment, has a lien for that person's wages on all leather so manuf…

A person who labors at cutting, hauling, rafting or driving logs or lumber, or at cooking for persons engaged in such labor, or in shoeing horses or oxen, or repairing property while thus employed, has a lien on the logs and lumber for the amount due for that person's personal se…

The officer making the attachment pursuant to section 3601 may pay the boomage thereon, not exceeding the rate per thousand on the quantity actually attached by the officer, and return the amount paid on the writ of attachment, which must be included in the damages recovered. The…

A person who drives logs or lumber by contract with the owner or with any other person has a lien on those logs or lumber for the amount payable under the contract, which takes precedence of all other claims, except liens for labor, for stumpage and for towing, continues for 60 d…

A person who labors at cutting, peeling or hauling hemlock bark, or cutting, yarding or hauling cordwood, or cutting, peeling, yarding or hauling pulpwood or any wood used in the manufacture of pulpwood, or at cooking for persons engaged in such labor, has a lien thereon for the …

A person who labors in the manufacturing of last blocks, shovel handle blocks, railroad ties or ship knees, or is engaged in cooking for persons engaged in such labor, or cuts or furnishes wood for the manufacture of last blocks or shovel handle blocks, or furnishes a team for th…

A person who labors at cutting, hauling or sawing shingle, stave, lath, dowel or spool timber, or in the manufacture of shingle, stave, lath, dowel or spool timber into shingles, staves, laths, dowels or spool bars, or at piling staves, laths, dowels or spool bars, or at bunching…

A person who digs, hauls or furnishes rock for the manufacture of lime has a lien on the lime for that person's personal service, and on the rock so furnished, for 30 days after the rock is manufactured into lime or until the lime is sold or shipped on board a vessel. A person wh…

A person who, under express contract fixing the price to be paid by the other party to the contract, sells, erects or furnishes any monument, tablet, headstone, vault, posts, curbing or other monumental work has a lien on the monument, tablet, headstone, vault, posts, curbing or …

Whenever the amount due for the use of any safe or box in the vaults of any bank or safe deposit company has not been paid for one year, the bank or company may, at the expiration of that period, notify the person in whose name the safe or box stands on its books, by a notice in …

A person who performs labor or whose employees perform labor in manufacturing or repairing the ironwork or woodwork of wagons, carts, sleighs and other vehicles, aircraft or component parts, and parachutes, or so performing labor furnishes materials or provides storage by directi…

1. Filing. A lien described in section 3801 is dissolved unless the claimant files the following documents in the office of the Secretary of State within 90 days after providing the labor, storage or materials: A. A financing statement in the form approved by the Secretary of Sta…

All domestic vessels shall be subject to a lien to any part owner or other person to secure the payment of debts contracted and advances made for labor and materials necessary for their repair, provisions, stores and other supplies necessary for their employment, and for the use …

A person who furnishes labor or materials for building a vessel has a lien on it for the labor and materials, which may be enforced by attachment of the vessel within 4 days after it is launched, but if the labor and materials have been so furnished by virtue of a contract not fu…

The form of writ for enforcing such lien must be in substance as follows:"State of Maine.………, ss.To the sheriff of our County of ...., or either of the sheriff's deputies: We command you to attach the vessel" (here give such a description of the vessel as will identify it,) "in a…

The plaintiff shall annex to the complaint a just, true and particular account of the demand claimed to be due to the plaintiff with all just credits, the names of the persons personally liable to the plaintiff and names of the owners of the vessel if known to the plaintiff. It m…

If the vessel at the time is on the stocks, the attachment must be made by filing in the office of the clerk of the town in which the vessel is located, within 48 hours after the order of attachment, a copy of so much of the officer's return on the writ of attachment as relates t…

The summons and complaint shall be served as in other actions on persons named as personally liable for the plaintiff's claim. A copy of the summons and complaint and writ of attachment shall also be posted in some conspicuous place on the vessel attached and mailed to all owners…

On all writs of attachment made after the first attachment and while any lien attachment is pending, the attachment and services must be made by the same officer, or, if that officer is disqualified, by any qualified officer, by the officer giving notice thereof to the first atta…

The actions must be entered on the docket as follows: the person claiming the lien, as plaintiff, the person alleged to be personally liable, as defendant, and the name or other description of the vessel attached. The owners or mortgagees of the vessel, or any plaintiff in an act…

The defendant may offer to be defaulted as in other cases. The owners of the vessel may admit, in writing filed with the clerk, that a certain sum is due the plaintiff as a lien on the vessel. If the plaintiff does not recover a greater sum as lien, the plaintiff recovers no cost…

The court, except as provided in section 3859, may decide all questions of costs and apportion them as they think proper.

At the request of either party, the following questions of fact shall be submitted to a jury: "What amount claimed in the complaint is due from the defendant to the plaintiff?" and "For how much of such amount has the plaintiff a lien on the vessel attached?" The verdict shall be…

Upon ascertaining the amount, judgment must be rendered in the plaintiff's favor against the defendant as in other personal actions, for the amount found not to be a lien on the vessel, with such costs as the court awards. A separate judgment must be rendered in the plaintiff's f…

When judgment is recovered in any action on which a vessel was attached, the court may issue an order to the attaching officer to sell it at auction, and to pay the proceeds thereof into court after deducting the expenses of sale and for taking care of the vessel while under atta…

If such proceeds are more than all the judgments recovered against such vessel and the amounts claimed in the undecided actions, the court may order the judgments, as fast as they are recovered against said vessel, to be paid from said fund until all such actions are terminated a…

If such proceeds are not enough to pay in full the judgments recovered and the claims still undecided, the court may order the money to remain until all the actions are terminated, and then divide pro rata; or it may direct a sufficient amount to be retained to pay on the undecid…

If the vessel has been already attached by a sheriff or the sheriff's deputy when a writ of attachment is issued for a lien claim, the writ of attachment must be served by the officer. If attached by a constable, the constable shall give up to the officer having the lien writ of …

A vessel attached for a lien claim may be attached by the same officer in the ordinary manner in an action against the owners thereof, and such attachment shall be valid, subject to the legal priorities of the lien attachments.

When a vessel attached for liens and also in the ordinary manner is sold by order of the court and the proceeds are more than sufficient to satisfy the lien judgments, the surplus shall be paid to the officer to be held upon the writs of attachment not founded on the lien claims.

The court, like a court in admiralty, may make all orders necessary for carrying out this chapter according to their true intent and meaning.

1. Lien established. A person, partnership or corporation engaged in one or more of the following activities has a lien on the item that the activity involves for a reasonable compensation for any labor or materials expended on that item: A. Making, altering, repairing or cleanin…

The lienholder shall retain any item subject to a lien under section 3951 for a period of 6 months, at the expiration of which time, if the lien is not satisfied, the lienholder may sell the item at public or private sale, after giving 30 days' notice in writing to the owner, spe…

After satisfying the lien and the reasonable costs and expenses accrued, the residue must be disposed of according to Title 33, chapter 45.