Meanings (ES + gloss)
derecho de retención
A right to take possession of a debtor’s property as security until a debt or duty is discharged.
Bodin deemed the king of France's power as absolute in the sense that the ruler was ‘absolved’ by divine sanction from legally binding liens and restrictions.
[…] every youth movement presents itself as loan to the future, and tries to call in its lien in advance, but when there is no future all loans are canceled.
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