779.04 Claims assignable; notice; prior payment. All claims for liens and right to recover therefor under this subchapter are assignable. Notice in writing of such assignment may be served upon the owner of the property affected and all payments made by the owner before service of such notice shall discharge the debt to the amount paid. The assignee may file petitions for such liens and may bring an action in the assignee's name to enforce the same, subject to the limitations in s. 779.01 (5).
History: 1979 c. 32 ss. 57, 92 (9); 1979 c. 176; Stats. 1979 s. 779.04.
Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
779.03 - Lien valid unless waived by claimant personally, or unless payment bond furnished.
779.035 - Form of contract; payment bond; remedy.
779.036 - Contracts with payment bond; lien; notice; duty of owner and lender.
779.04 - Claims assignable; notice; prior payment.
779.07 - Judgment and lien docket.
779.08 - Release of lien; undertaking.
779.09 - Foreclosure of lien; procedure; parties.
779.11 - Distribution of proceeds of sale.
779.12 - Sale; notice and report; deficiency judgment; writ of assistance.
779.13 - Satisfaction of judgment or lien; correction of errors.
779.135 - Construction contracts, form of contract.
779.14 - Public works, form of contract, bond, remedy.
779.155 - Judgment creditors, attachment of funds due to public contractors.
779.16 - Theft by contractors.
779.17 - Release of funds on filing bond.
779.19 - Petition for log lien; filing same.
779.20 - Action to enforce log lien; parties; costs; change of venue.
779.21 - Attachment, affidavit for; undertaking; service of writ.
779.24 - Lien for camp supplies.
779.25 - Lien for joint log driving.
779.26 - Lien of improvement companies.
779.30 - Undertaking by intervenor; procedure.
779.36 - Extent of lien; filing claim.
779.37 - Satisfaction of lien.
779.40 - Liens for labor in quarry.
779.413 - Liens on aircraft and aircraft engines.
779.415 - Liens on vehicles for towing and storage.
779.42 - Obtaining mechanic's services by misrepresentation of interest in personal property.
779.43 - Liens of keepers of hotels, livery stables, garages, marinas and pastures.
779.45 - Liens of factors, brokers, etc.
779.47 - Plastics fabricator's lien.
779.49 - Lien of owner of breeding animal or methods.
779.50 - Lien for threshing, husking, baling; enforcement.
779.71 - Disposition of articles left for laundering, dry cleaning, repair, storage.
779.87 - Escrow account or bond requirement.
779.88 - Prepaid maintenance lien.
779.89 - Attachment and preservation.
779.90 - Notice of existence of lien.
779.92 - Enforceability of lien.
779.93 - Duties of the department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection.