Montgomery County v. May Department Stores Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a municipal ordinance did not create a lien and that the County was a general creditor subject to the priority of a judgment lien
• a lien is a security interest in property; it is a charge upon a particular property for the payment of a particular debt or duty
• absent clear statutory authority, a local government utility cannot collect charges as delinquent taxes

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).