RSA 453:1 Existence, Priority, Duration, and Enforcement.

I. If a person, firm or corporation shall, by himself or itself, or others, make an advance or series of advances of money to the owner of, or person entitled to the possession of, any logs, lumber or pulpwood for the purpose of financing the cutting, hauling, yarding, piling, trucking, rafting, booming, driving or towing of the same, he or it shall have a lien for the amount of all such advances, which shall take precedence over all claims, except taxes, liens provided for in RSA 447:4 and all other liens legally acquired and recorded prior to the placing of the registered mark thereon as herein provided, upon all of such logs, lumber and pulpwood on which he or it has caused his or its registered mark to be placed and such lien with respect to each such advance shall continue for