Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 55-215

  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • oil-field equipment: means oil-field supplies, oil-field machinery, materials, heavy machinery, buildings, tubing, tanks, boilers, engines, casing, wire lines, sucker rods, oil pipelines, gas pipelines and all other material used in digging, drilling, torpedoing, operating, completing, maintaining or repairing any such oil or gas wells or oil pipelines or gas pipelines, or in the construction or dismantling of refineries, casing-head gasoline plant and carbon black plants. See Kansas Statutes 55-212

The holder of such lien shall within six months institute an action to foreclose and enforce the lien in the manner now provided by law, or shall within six months institute an action in attachment or replevin, setting forth the lienholder’s interest and right to possession thereto, in a court of competent jurisdiction in the county where such oil-field equipment has been delivered, or in any county where it can be located.