Lien Laws.—Judgments of courts of record of Kansas, and of courts of the United States rendered within this state, are liens on the real estate of the debtor within the county and from the first day of the term at which the judgment is rendered, but judgments by confession, and judgments rendered at the same term which the action is commenced, bind such lands only from the day on which the judgment is rendered. An attested copy of the journal entry of any judgment, together with a statement of the costs taxed against the debtor in the case, may be filed in the office of the clerk of the district court of any county, and such judgment is a lien on the real estate of the debtor within that county from the time of filing such copy. Executions are issued only from the court in which the judgment is rendered.

Any person who, under contract with the owner of any tract or piece of land, or with a trustee, agent, husband or wife of such owner, performs labor or furnishes material for the erection, alteration or repair of any building, improvement or structure thereon; or who furnishes material or performs labor in putting up any fixtures or machinery in, or attachment to, any such building, structure or improvement; or who plants any trees, vines, plants or hedges, in or upon said land; or who builds, alters or repairs, or furnishes labor or material for building, altering or repairing any fence or foot-walk in or upon said land, or any sidewalk in any street abutting said land, has a lien upon the whole of said piece or tract of land, the building and appurtenances, for the amount due to him for such labor, material, fixtures or machinery. Such liens are preferred to all other liens or incumbrances which may attach to or upon the land, buildings or improvements, or either of them, subsequent to the commencement of such building, the furnishing or putting up of the fixtures or machinery, the planting of trees, vines, plants, or hedges, the building of the fence, foot-walks, or sidewalks, or the making of any of the repairs or improvements.

In any contract for the sale of railroad or street railway equipment or rolling stock, it is lawful to agree that the title to the property sold, although possession is given, shall not vest in the purchaser until the purchase price is fully paid.

All bonds legally issued by a vote of the electors in any county or township becomes a lien upon all the real estate therein for the payment of the principal and interest of such bonds.

An attorney has a lien for a general balance of compensation upon any papers of his client which have come into his possession in the course of his professional employment, upon money in his hands and upon money due to his client, and anyone under contract with the owner of any leasehold for oil or gas purposes, performs labor or furnishes material, has a lien upon the whole of such leasehold, and it becomes a preferred lien.