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seller's lien

 
 
noun [C] LAW

Definition

an official rule that allows a seller to take property back from a customer who has not paid for it: The printer claimed an unpaid seller's lien.
(Definition of seller's lien noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
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