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AGENTS AND FACTORS. [ART. 34.

Id s 13
1825, c 182, s. 6.
Remedies of
principal
against agent.

13. 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 engagement,
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.

Id B 14.
1849, c 293, s. 1.
Mortgage,
pledge, etc,
by consignee of
agricultural
productions,
void.

14. Every mortgage, pledge, deposit, or other disposal by said
commission merchant, factor, agent, bailee, or consignee of such
agricultural productions thus consigned for sale alone, unless with
the consent of the grower, producer, or other owner, expressly
given, shall be null and void, and no title to said articles or any of
them shall pass to the person receiving the same, but the title
thereto shall remain in the grower, producer, or other consignor
thereof as if no such mortgage, pledge, deposit, or other disposal
had been made.

Id. s. 15
1849, c 293, s 2
Agricultural
productions, in
111 solvent
agent's hands,
not to pass to
his trustee

15. Whenever any commission merchant, factor, agent, or other
consignee, shall be discharged under the insolvent laws of this State,
no agricultural produce which may have been consigned to him for
sale, and which may be on hand at the time of his application and
discharge not sold to a fair and bona fide purchaser for a valuable
consideration, shall pass to the trustee of said insolvent, or be in any
wise answer-able for his debts, but all such agricultural produce so on
hand at the time of such application and discharge shall be the
property of the grower, producer, or other owner who shall have
consigned the same

Id s 16
1849, c 293, s 3
Lien of agent
for advances on
agricultural
productions

16. Nothing contained in the last 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 bond fide made, either in money or goods, to any such
grower, producer, or owner, on the faith and security of such con-
signment, but such right of lien shall remain as at common law and
mercantile usage.