Legal rights

The answer

LIENS

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LIENS answer page.

Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 1987; first recorded in 1946. It appears in 1 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• DROITS (5 uses in xd)
• DROIT (1 uses in xd)
• PATENTS (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for LIENS

Every other clue in this collection answered by LIENS, most used first.

• Property claims - used 87 times, most recently in 2026
• Legal claims - used 51 times, most recently in 2025
• Mortgages - used 28 times, most recently in 2016
• Bank claims - used 15 times, most recently in 2023
• Encumbrances - used 13 times, most recently in 2020
• Claims on property - used 10 times, most recently in 2021
• Title clouds - used 9 times, most recently in 2009
• Legal attachments - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
• Property encumbrances - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Bank's legal claims - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Debt securities - used 6 times, most recently in 2018

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Civil rights org. - NAACP, used 98 times
• Civil rights leader Medgar - EVERS, used 58 times
• Legal wrongs - TORTS, used 41 times
• Legal - LICIT, used 28 times
• Civil rights activist Medgar - EVERS, used 22 times
• Legal right - DROIT, used 16 times

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