Question

Michael contracts with jill to fix the brakes on her honda civic. jill leaves her car with michael, but refuses to pay when the work is done. michael refuses to return the car to jill until she pays for the brake work. this is

Answer 1

The answer is that "this is an artisan's lien".

We can define "Artisan's Lien" as a kind of lien that gives specialists a security interest for individual property until the point when they have been paid for their work on that property. Basically, a workman's lien by another name.