Section 171General lien of bankers, factors, wharfingers, attorneys and policy- brokers

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171. General lien of bankers, factors, wharfingers, attorneys and policy- brokers Bankers, factors, wharfingers, [advocate of the Supreme Court] and policy-brokers may, in the absence of a contract to the contrary, retain, as a security for a general balance of account, any goods bailed to them; but no other persons have a right to retain, as a security for such balance, goods bailed to them, unless there is an express contract to that effect.

1. 13. The words "advocate of the Supreme Court" were substituted, for the words "attorneys of a High Court" by the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973, (Act No. VIII of 1973), section 3 and 2nd Schedule