Not releasing personal property due to previous owner's bills?
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I bought two horses and the previous owners left a big bill at the boarding stable. Can I go and get my horses or can they be held for the bill? If I want to move the horses to another property do I have the right to take them off the property since they now belong to me? What would I need to have with me as proof of new ownership?
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Without doing any research on this, since it's a free question, I am pretty sure that horse boarders have one of those obscure statutory liens on the horeses for payment of the stable bills. If so, it's just like a lien on a house: if it isn't paid off when you buy it, the lein holder still has the lien and can enforce it as if you were the previous owner. It sounds like you got ripped off by the seller of the horses.
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