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Lien type

The observed, reported, or derived lien type for the applicable Subject, with party role, filing context, basis, and date retained on source coverage or in schema inventory.

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Sources that carry it

5 sources
California Secretary of State
bizfile UCC and Lien Search

Standing governmental online inquiry covering UCC financing statements and centrally filed judgment, attachment, federal-tax, and state-tax liens. It documents indexed debtors, secured parties, filing identifiers, record classes, index/lapse classifications, and related change records. Images, collateral text, certificate orders, and unnecessary identifiers are excluded.

Free Subnational 5 fields
Companies House
Companies House Public Data API

Governmental read-only REST API suite for live public UK company-register data, including company profiles, registered office addresses, searches, officers and appointments, registers, filing-history metadata, exemptions, disqualifications, charges, insolvency, UK establishments, and public PSC records. Exact scalar leaves inside documented arrays are represented as repeated Features; protected residential-address, date-of-birth, identity-verification, super-secure PSC, and filing-document content are excluded.

Free API National GB 56 fields
Middesk
Middesk Liens Search API

Commercial API/dashboard add-on to Business Verification for buyer-initiated U.S. lien searches. Current first-party documentation covers business UCC, federal-tax, and state-tax liens and associated-person UCC/tax-lien order modes. Results use documented lien objects with filing identity, parties, jurisdiction, source-emitted status and status category, filing/update/lapse dates, normalized collateral type, negative-pledge indication, and monetary fields. Filing/termination services, monitoring events, bankruptcy, and Secretary-of-State verification remain outside this Source boundary.

Paid API National US 14 fields
Texas Secretary of State
SOS UCC Portal

Current Texas online UCC product superseding legacy SOSDirect UCC. An SOS Portal account supports filing-number and debtor/secured-party searches; documented visible results include filing identity/type/dates and repeated party role, name, address and geography concepts. Submissions, attachments, collateral, and document retrieval are excluded.

Paid Subnational 6 fields
New York State Department of State
UCC and Lien Search

Standing governmental search over UCC Article 9 financing statements/amendments, federal-tax-lien notices, and related notices/certificates, with debtor, filing-number, and secured-party entry points. Repeated records/images remain unflattened.

Free Subnational 3 fields

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