An unpaid framing subcontractor furnished labor and materials to a private remodel. Who is entitled to record a mechanics lien?

解析

Civil Code §8400 gives a lien right to a person that provides work authorized for a work of improvement, and lists the direct contractor, subcontractor, material supplier, equipment lessor, laborer, and design professional; §8404 defines authorized work as work requested or agreed to by the owner, or authorized by a direct contractor, subcontractor, architect, project manager, or other person having charge of part of the work. The framing subcontractor is squarely inside that. (b) is the limit that matters: a creditor who contributed nothing to the improvement, such as the contractor's landlord or lender, has no lien. (a) and (c) shrink the class to a single tier, which would leave every subcontractor and supplier without the remedy the chapter was written for.