What is the “second principle” in lien law?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Rasmussen's Limited v. Melville Country Club, 1977 CanLII 1469 (SK QB):
Bayda J.A. stated the “second principle” in Doig v. Stehn as follows [p. 431]: “A premature payment of the holdback does not give a lienholder any greater right than he would have had the owner retained the money for the statutory period and then made the payment.”
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