12 Southeast Transaction Guide § 283.100

Summary

• [1] Comment—Use of Form.

  This form may be used by a lienor to assign his lien. For a form of assignment of lien rights as collateral for a loan, see Rabkin & Johnson, Current Legal Forms, Form 6.04.

  FLORIDA. A lien or prospective lien, except that of a laborer, may be assigned by the lienor at any time before its discharge. The assignment may and should be recorded in the clerk’s office [Fla. Stat. § 713.19]. On assignment, the assignee is vested with all of the assignor’s rights and interests [Spears v. West Coast Builders’ Supply Co., 101 Fla. 980, 133 So. 97 (1931)].

  GEORGIA. Although there is no statutory law on the subject, it would appear that a lien may be assigned. That is, it has been held that a mechanic who performed labor in constructing a building and filed and recorded a lien therefor could make a written assignment of the lien [Logue v. Walker, 141 Ga. 644, 81 S.E. 849 (1914)].

  ALABAMA. Any claim for which a lien is provided for mechanics and materialmen may be assigned. On ...