may separately encumber his interest in property and such encumbrance binds only the cotenant’s interest in the property. Id. The property was owned by the plaintiff and his ex-wife at the time the lien was recorded, and the lien specifically stated it was placed against the property of both of them. Id. This court found “[w]hile it may be true that, had the lien been foreclosed and the property sold, the lien could have been satisfied only through the [ex-w]ife’s interest in the property, the lien nonetheless attached to the property as whole and affected the value of the property as a whole.” Id. “All pleadings shall be so construed as to do substantial justice to all parties.” Rule 8(f), SCRCP; see also Russell v. City of Columbia, 305 S.C. 86, 89, 406 S.E.2d 338, 340 (1991) (<HOLDING>). “[Technical, restrictive or outmoded
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