Can a lien be filed against two houses owned by two people together?

Manitoba, Canada


The following excerpt is from Polson v. Thomson, 1916 CanLII 350 (MB CA):

3. One lien may be filed against two houses owned by two persons together, though they afterwards divide the houses between them : Fairclough v. Smith, (1901) 13 M.R. 509, distinguished.

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