186. ARTICLE 2.

An. Code, sec. 2. 1904, sec. 2. 1888, sec. 2. 1825, ch. 182, sec. 1. 1829, ch. 198.

2. The provisions of the preceding section shall not apply to any case
where the consignee shall have notice by the bill of lading or otherwise,
at or before the time of any advance of such money or negotiable security,
or of such receipt of money or negotiable security for which such lien is
claimed, that the person so shipping or consigning in his own name or in
whose name any goods, wares or merchandise shall be shipped or consigned
by any other person is not the actual and bona fide owner thereof.

An. Code, sec. 3. 1904, sec. 3. 1888, sec. 3. 1825, ch. 182, sec. 2.

3. Any person intrusted with and in possession of any bill of lading,
store keeper's or inspector's certificate, order for the delivery of goods,

or other document showing possession, shall be deemed the true owner
of the goods, wares or merchandise described therein, so far as to give
validity to any contract thereafter to be made by such person with any other
person or body corporate for the sale or disposal of the said goods, wares or
merchandise, or for the pledge or deposit thereof as a security for any
money or negotiable instrument advanced or given on the faith of such
documents, or any of them; provided, that such person or body corporate
shall not have notice by such document or otherwise, that the person so
intrusted is not the actual and bona fide owner of such goods, wares and
merchandise.

If a pledgee takes warehouse receipts upon the face of which the consignee is
described as " agent," such description puts the pledgee on notice that the consignee
is not the actual and bona fide owner. Thurber v. Cecil National Bank, 52 Fed.
513.

This section applied. Farmers, etc., Co. v. Brown, 87 Md. 1.

As to bills of lading, see art. 14. As to warehouse receipts, see art. 14A.

An. Code, sec. 4. 1904, sec. 4. 1888, sec. 4. 1825, ch. 182, sec. 3.

4. Any person or body corporate may contract with any agent or factor
intrusted with any goods, wares or merchandise, or to whom the same may
be consigned, for the purchase thereof, and may receive the same from
such agent, factor or consignee, and pay him therefor; and such contract

and payment shall be good against the owner, notwithstanding such person

shall have notice that the person making such contract, or on whose behalf

such contract is made, is an agent or factor; provided, that such contract

and payment be made in the usual course of business, and that when such

contract is entered into or payment made, such person or body corporate

shall not have notice that such agent or factor is not authorized to sell the

goods, wares or merchandise, or receive the purchase money for the same.

A jewelry dealer who has no store but is entrusted by the owner with a ring for

the purpose of procuring a match therefor, and failing in that to get an offer of

purchase for it, is not an agent or factor within the meaning of this section. This

article has no application to other than mercantile transactions. Levi v. Booth,

58 Md. 305. And see Lemp Brewing Co. v. Mantz, 120 Md. 182.

An. Code, sec. 5. 1904, sec. 5. 1888, sec. 5. 1825, ch. 182, sec. 4.

5. If any person or body corporate shall take any goods, wares or
merchandise, or any document mentioned in section 3, in deppsit or pledge