context: There is scant authority construing the forced-sale prohibition contained in article XI, apart from a handful of cases involving liens against public building projects.
citation_a.signal: see
citation_a.identifier: 18 S.W. 563, 563
citation_a.parenthetical: holding that builder's hen is not enforceable against public buildings and grounds except as expressly permitted by statute
citation_a.sentence: See, e.g., Atascosa County v. Angus, 83 Tex. 202, 18 S.W. 563, 563 (1892) (holding that builder’s hen is not enforceable against public buildings and grounds except as expressly permitted by statute); City of LaPorte v. Taylor, 836 S.W.2d 829, 831-32 (TexApp.-Houston [1st Dist.] 1992, no writ) (noting that legislature has provided limited statutory remedy supplanting materialman’s lien in construction contract for public-works project, consistent with Texas Constitution’s express exemption of public property from forced sale); see also Quincy Lee Co. v. Lodal & Bain Eng’rs, Inc., 602 S.W.2d 262, 264 (Tex. 1980) (construction contract with entity created under article XVI, section 59 of Texas Constitution will in no event give rise to lien).
citation_b.signal: see also
citation_b.identifier: 602 S.W.2d 262, 264
citation_b.parenthetical: construction contract with entity created under article XVI, section 59 of Texas Constitution will in no event give rise to lien
citation_b.sentence: See, e.g., Atascosa County v. Angus, 83 Tex. 202, 18 S.W. 563, 563 (1892) (holding that builder’s hen is not enforceable against public buildings and grounds except as expressly permitted by statute); City of LaPorte v. Taylor, 836 S.W.2d 829, 831-32 (TexApp.-Houston [1st Dist.] 1992, no writ) (noting that legislature has provided limited statutory remedy supplanting materialman’s lien in construction contract for public-works project, consistent with Texas Constitution’s express exemption of public property from forced sale); see also Quincy Lee Co. v. Lodal & Bain Eng’rs, Inc., 602 S.W.2d 262, 264 (Tex. 1980) (construction contract with entity created under article XVI, section 59 of Texas Constitution will in no event give rise to lien).