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Excerpt from Liens and Priority and Foreclosure of Liens It is not the purpose of this work to trace liens from their origin in other countries, nor to follow their growth and application in other states, but merely to furnish the bar of Texas with a brief summary of the various liens as construed by the courts of Texas. Since the time when mankind began to establish fixed rules regulating the rights of men, far back in the remote past, the right of compensation for services performed, as well as to secure loans and property sold on credit, has been recognized and enforced. In fact, it has been the main purpose of law in all civilized countries to protect the rights of citizens in their relations with their fellow men. From time immemorial, or, to use the language of a great law writer, Blackstone, "since the time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary," rules protecting the rights of one who performs a service for another have been the established laws of civilized countries; nay, we may go back far beyond Blackstone's time and find that one greater than all legal commentators declared that "the laborer is worthy of his hire." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.