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property of the grower, producer or other owner who shall have con-
signed the same.

1904. art. 2. sec. 15. 1S88, art. 2. sec. 15. 1860, art. 3. sec. 15. 1849, ch. 293, sec. 3.

15. Nothing contained in the three preceding sections shall in any
manner impair any right of lien which any commission merchant,
factor or agent may have acquired or be entitled to for advances bona
fide made, either in money or goods, to any such grower, producer or
owner, on the faith and security of such consignment; but such right of
lien shall remain as at common law and mercantile usage.

Ibid. sec. 16. 1888, art. 2, sec. 16. 1860, art. 3, sec. 16. 1825, ch. 182, sec. 6.

16. Nothing contained in this article shall deprive any principal
or owner of goods, wares or merchandise, of any remedy at law or in
equity, which he might have against his agent or factor on any
matter or contract between them, or for the violation of any engage-
ment, duty or debt, for which such agent or factor has heretofore been
liable at law and in equity, subject, nevertheless, to the right of such
agent or factor to be allowed the benefit of any payments of any debt
or damages received and paid from and on such contracts as aforesaid,
by any other person or body corporate.

1910, ch. 178 (p. 5).

17. Whenever, in the absence of special agreement to the contrary,
a real estate broker employed to sell, buy, lease or otherwise negotiate
real or leasehold estates or mortgages, or loans thereon, procures in
good faith a purchaser, seller, lessor or lessee, mortgagor or mortgagee,
borrower or lender, as the lease" may be, and the person so procured is
accepted as such by the employer, and enters into a valid, binding and
enforceable written contract of sale, purchase, lease, mortgage, loan
or other contract, as the case may be, in terms acceptable to the
employer, and such contract is accepted by the employer and signed
by him, the broker shall be deemed to have earned the customary or
agreed commission, as the case may be, whether or not the contract
entered into be actually into effect, unless the performance of such
contract be prevented, hindered or delayed by any act of the broker.

As to who is a real estate broker: his license, etc.. see art. 56. sec. 13, et seq.
*Evidently a typographical error.