Texas Property Code

§ 56.004 — PRIORITY

PR § 56.004Title 5. EXEMPT PROPERTY AND LIENS · Part B. LIENS · Ch. 56. LIENS AGAINST MINERAL PROPERTY · Art. A. GENERAL PROVISIONS

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(a)The lien does not affect an encumbrance that attached to land or a leasehold before the lien's inception.

(b)The lien on material, machinery, supplies, or a specific improvement takes priority over an earlier encumbrance on the land or leasehold on which the material, machinery, supplies, or improvement is placed or located.

Legislative history

Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3567, ch. 576, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1984.