779.38 Effect of mortgage. No mortgage or other instrument by which a lien is created shall operate to impair or postpone the lien and preference given and secured to the wages and moneys mentioned in s. 779.35; provided, that no lien of any mortgage or judgment entered before such labor is performed shall be affected or impaired by such lien.
History: 1979 c. 32 ss. 57, 92 (9); Stats. 1979 s. 779.38.
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.