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§ 18-41-101. Lien on crop — Period effective — Definition

(a) Every landlord shall have a lien upon the crop grown upon the demised premises in any year for rent that shall accrue for the year. (b) (1) The lien is perfected and shall have priority over a conflicting security interest in or agricultural lien on the crop regardless of when the conflicting security interest […]

§ 18-41-103. Lien for advances — Enforcement

(a) (1) In addition to the lien given by law to landlords, if any landlord, to enable his or her tenant or employee to make and gather the crop, shall advance the tenant or employee any necessary supplies, either of money, provisions, clothing, stock, or other necessary articles, the landlord shall have a lien upon […]

§ 18-41-104. Priority of tenant employees’ liens

(a) Whenever any landlord shall endorse, upon any written agreement made by and between his or her tenant and the employees of the tenant, his or her written consent to the terms of the agreement, then, and in that case only, the lien of the employees shall have precedence over that of the landlord. (b) […]

§ 18-41-105. Waiver to be recited in mortgage

If any mortgagee procures a waiver of the landlord’s lien, in part or in full, he or she shall recite it in his or her mortgage. If the waiver of lien is not recited in the mortgage, or attached thereto, the waiver shall be invalid against any subsequent mortgagee, purchaser, or assignee.

§ 18-41-106. Right to assign

(a) A landlord’s lien for rent shall be assignable. (b) The holder of any note, contract, or other instrument evidencing the rent for land upon which crops are to be produced during any year may sell, assign, transfer, mortgage, or pledge the note, contract, or other evidence thereof, together with the lien, if any, provided […]

§ 18-41-107. Purchasers or assignees from bailees

The purchaser or assignee of the receipt of any ginner, warehouser, cotton factor, or other bailee for any cotton, corn, or other farm products in store or custody of the ginner, warehouser, cotton factor, or other bailee shall not be held to be an innocent purchaser of any such produce against the lien of any […]

§ 18-41-108. Attachment to enforce

(a) Any landlord who has a lien on the crop for rent shall be entitled to bring suit before a circuit court having jurisdiction and have a writ of attachment for the recovery of it, whether the rent is due or not, in the following cases: (1) If the tenant is about to remove the […]