Craftsman Contractors, Inc. v. Brown

In order to perfect a hen on real property under the Construction Lien Law, a contractor must apprise the owner of any debts owed other (sub)eontraetors (including engineers, architects, and certain other professionals), laborers, or materialmen “under his direct contract” whose services, labor, or materials may give (or have given) rise to a hen because they helped discharge the contractor’s undertaking to improve the real property. The contractor has to

give to the owner an affidavit stating, if that be the fact, that all henors under his direct contract have been paid in full or, if the…